Thomas Hicks American, 1823-1890 The Caged Bird Signed T. Hicks and dated indistinctly 188...; with a chalk preparatory sketch of a child on the reverse Oil on board 26 3/8 x 21 1/2 inches Provenance: Private collection Best known as a prominent New York portraitist in the second half of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hicks also painted landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes such as Interior: Children with Caged Robin. A partial date on the work indicates that it was rendered in the last decade of the artist's life. Contrasting with some of Hicks's more dramatic subjects-he was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1841 on the basis of a painting entitled Death of Abel-this view of children in a quiet moment at home provides an informal glimpse into the life of another era. Hicks may have drawn his subject from his summer visits to Trenton Falls, New York, near Utica, where he and his wife had purchased a farmhouse that they named Thornwood. In Hicks's oeuvre are other genre scenes rendered during these visits, including The Musicale, Barber Shop, Trenton Falls, New York (1866, North Carolina Museum of Art) and The Moore Family at Trenton Falls (1854, private collection), the latter exhibited in 2011 at the Munson-Williams-Proctor. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art
Thomas Hicks American, 1823-1890 The Caged Bird Signed T. Hicks and dated indistinctly 188...; with a chalk preparatory sketch of a child on the reverse Oil on board 26 3/8 x 21 1/2 inches Provenance: Private collection Best known as a prominent New York portraitist in the second half of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hicks also painted landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes such as Interior: Children with Caged Robin. A partial date on the work indicates that it was rendered in the last decade of the artist's life. Contrasting with some of Hicks's more dramatic subjects-he was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1841 on the basis of a painting entitled Death of Abel-this view of children in a quiet moment at home provides an informal glimpse into the life of another era. Hicks may have drawn his subject from his summer visits to Trenton Falls, New York, near Utica, where he and his wife had purchased a farmhouse that they named Thornwood. In Hicks's oeuvre are other genre scenes rendered during these visits, including The Musicale, Barber Shop, Trenton Falls, New York (1866, North Carolina Museum of Art) and The Moore Family at Trenton Falls (1854, private collection), the latter exhibited in 2011 at the Munson-Williams-Proctor. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art
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