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In New York Art Tours\u2019 final selection from the Met Museum\u2019<\/a>s American galleries this week, this painting by Edward Hicks, Pennsylvania Quaker preacher, trained sign painter and one of the U.S.\u2019s best known folk artists, celebrates independence while encouraging unity.\u00a0 The message, \u2018In unity there is strength\u2019 appears in an arc against the back wall in a departure from John Trumbul<\/a>l\u2019s famous, earlier painting after which Hicks modeled his composition.\u00a0 Painted in 1844, the year of a presidential election that divided the country over issues of expansionism and the annexation of Texas, this painting recalls the act of solidarity that began the nation\u2019s history. \u00a0(On view in gallery 731 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art).<\/p>\n

Edward Hicks, The Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas, 1844. Lent by the Solomon Family Collection, 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In New York Art Tours\u2019 final selection from the Met Museum\u2019s American galleries this week, this painting by Edward Hicks, Pennsylvania Quaker preacher, trained sign painter and one of the U.S.\u2019s best known folk artists, celebrates independence while encouraging unity.\u00a0 The message, \u2018In unity there is strength\u2019 appears in an arc against the back wall … <\/p>\n

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