The itinerant artist and Quaker minister Edward Hicks is best known for his depictions of the Peaceable Kingdom foretold in the Bible--but beneath their serene surfaces, turbulent currents roiled.

The Peaceable Kingdom paintings by Edward Hicks, the nineteenth-century Quaker minister and artist, are probably the best-known and most beloved works in American folk art. But few understand what the pictures are all about and why their creation consumed so much of the painter's career. A fascinating exhibition now on national tour, and an excellent accompanying book by ...

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