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"description": "Works of Edward Hicks. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, VA, Williamsburg, VA (organizer) (September 1-October 31, 1960).",
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"title": "Four Pennsylvania Self-Taught Artists: Edward Hicks, Joseph Pickett, John Kane, Horace Pippin",
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"title": "The Hand and the Spirit: Religious Art in America 1700 - 1900",
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"title": "The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks",
"description": "The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, VA (February 5-September 5, 1999); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (October 10, 1999-January 2, 2000); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (February 5-April 30, 2000); Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY (June 3-September 4, 2000); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 24, 2000-January 7, 2001).",
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"description": "Philadelphia, Friends Historical Association (1944).",
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"description": "Akron, OH, Akron Art Institute, 40 American Painters: A Survey of American Painting from Colonial to Modern Times (December, 1945), illus. cat. no. 6.",
"opening_date": "1945-12-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, Rediscoveries in American Painting (3 October-6 November 1955), cat. no. 55, listed p. 26, not illus.",
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"description": "Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Anniversary Exhibition of Oberlin College (15-30 October 1958).",
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"description": "Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, Animals, Real and Imaginary (15 November-1 March 1960)",
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"description": "Williamsburg, VA, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Edward Hicks 1780-184 9: A Special Exhibition Devoted to His Life and Work (30 September-30 October 1960), illus. cat. no. 5, p. 10.",
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"description": "Berkeley, University of California Art Museum, The Hand and the Spirit: Religious Art in America 1700-1900 (28 June-27 August 1972); traveled to Washington, DC, National Collection of Fine Arts (29 September-5 November 1972); to Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (10 December 1972-14 January 1973); to Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art (20 February-15 April 1973); cat. no. 37; not illustrated; dated c. 1820-1830.",
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"description": "New York, NY, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Edward Hicks: A Gentle Spirit (text by Eleanore Price Mather), (May 16-June 28 1975).",
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"description": "Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, American Folk Art from the Traditional to the Naive (4 October-24 December 1978); illus. cat. no. 57, p. 86.",
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"description": "Williamsburg, VA, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks (5 February-5 September 1999); traveled to Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art (10 October 1999-2 January 2000); to Denver, Denver Art Museum (5 February-30 April 2000); to new York, NYSHA Fenimore Museum (3 June-6 September 2000); to San Francisco, Folk Art Museum of San Francisco and de Young (24 September 2000-7 January 2001), illus. no. 28, p. 52, dated 1816-1818; details illus. nos. 79, 80, p. 91, no. 81, p. 92, listed in checklist, no. 1, p. 189.",
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