Peaceable Kingdom

Artist John August Swanson (1938 - 2021)

Date1994

MediumSerigraph, 35 color printings

Dimensions30 x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm)
Framed (Frame is silver metal, wired, glazed): 38 1/2 x 31 x 1 in. (97.8 x 78.7 x 2.5 cm)

ClassificationsPrintmaking

Credit LineGift of Diane Kenney '64 and DarEll Weist

Object number2026.070

DescriptionThe wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
–Isaiah 11:6

Artist’s Statement:
PEACEABLE KINGDOM (1969) was one of my earliest finished paintings. In it, I used the technique of crayon sgraffito, a method I kept working with and developing from this first piece. I built up layers of crayon, drawing the figures, patterns, and embellishments with a sharp stylus through the layers. I developed the Peaceable Kingdom painting from a miniature, A Time of Peace. from my black and white drawing Ecclesiastes (1969).

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