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A Friendly Warning, Thomas Hicks
A Friendly Warning, 1881–90

Thomas Hicks

1823–1890 · Realism · 1 work

Thomas Hicks’s A Friendly Warning brings several men together in a plainly furnished room. Their hands and postures carry the conversation, while the stove, tools and animals add quieter points of interest. Look from one figure to the next and decide where the warning might begin, without losing sight of the room around them.

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Artist information: Art Institute of Chicago.

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