{"id":176784,"date":"2025-04-08T04:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/art\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers-my-daily-art-display\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T04:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:42:54","slug":"hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers-my-daily-art-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=176784","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Harrison Cohoon and the Shakers. \u2013 my daily art display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">My short blog today is about n artist and a religion. It looks at the life and works of Hannah Cohoon, a person you may not have heard of before. Her art is both unusual and simplistic and is connected to a millenarian restorationist Christian sect known as <em>The United Society of Believers in Christ\u2019s Second Appearing<\/em>, but more commonly referred to as the <em>Shakers<\/em>. The group grew out of a branch of Quakerism around\u2009 1747 in Northwest England and later, the visionary Ann Lee (Mother Ann) brought Shakerism to America in the 1780s.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shakers_dancing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24932\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/2025\/04\/07\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers\/shakers_dancing\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shakers_dancing.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"566,289\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shakers_Dancing\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shakers_dancing.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shakers_dancing.jpg?w=566\" width=\"566\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shakers_dancing.jpg?w=566\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24932\" style=\"width:630px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Shaker workshop service showing worshippers on benches and marching in a spiral.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The Shakers were so-called because of their practices of shaking, dancing, whirling, and speaking, shouting, and singing in tongues.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hancock-shaker-village.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24935\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/2025\/04\/07\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers\/hancock-shaker-village\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hancock-shaker-village.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"550,309\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hancock-shaker-village\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hancock-shaker-village.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hancock-shaker-village.jpg?w=550\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hancock-shaker-village.jpg?w=550\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24935\" style=\"width:630px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Hancock Shaker Village<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/round-barn-and-fields-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24961\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/2025\/04\/07\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers\/round-barn-and-fields-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/round-barn-and-fields-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"408,230\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Round Barn and Fields\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/round-barn-and-fields-2.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/round-barn-and-fields-2.jpg?w=408\" width=\"408\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/round-barn-and-fields-2.jpg?w=408\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24961\" style=\"width:600px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Round Stone Barn and Fields<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Hannah Harrison Cohoon was an American painter born in\u00a0Williamstown, Massachusetts\u00a0on February 1st 1788 and later became a member of\u00a0Hancock Shaker Village.\u00a0Although there are only sketchy details of Hannah\u2019s education it is thought that she would have been instructed in watercolour painting and probably would have learned needlework skills from her elders as it was a skill, like painting that was considered an essential ability that every young woman should possess  Hannah, now married, and known as Hannah Cohoon was twenty-nine-years-old and the mother of two young children. Her son Harrison was born in 1812 and her daughter Mariah was born in 1814. It was on March 15th 1817 that the twenty-nine-year-old Hannah entered the Hancock Shaker Village community situated just outside \u00a0Hancock\u00a0and\u00a0Pittsfield,\u00a0Massachusetts.  In the main, the Hancock Shakers supported themselves through farming. The grew and cultivated flowers and plants and from them sold garden seeds. Over time they purchased more land and by the 1830s the Hancock Shakers owned about 3,000 acres (12 km2).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_tree_of_life_or_blazaing_tree_1845.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24945\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/2025\/04\/07\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers\/hannah_cohoon_tree_of_life_or_blazaing_tree_1845\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_tree_of_life_or_blazaing_tree_1845.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"560,441\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hannah_Cohoon,_Tree_of_Life_or_Blazaing_Tree,_1845\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_tree_of_life_or_blazaing_tree_1845.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_tree_of_life_or_blazaing_tree_1845.jpg?w=560\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_tree_of_life_or_blazaing_tree_1845.jpg?w=560\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24945\" style=\"width:630px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Tree of Light or Blazing Tree by Hannah Cohoon (1845)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The leading artists at the time who worked at Hancock were Joseph Wicker, Hannah Cohoon, and Polly Collins and all chose to depict images which were derived from nature, especially trees. For the Shakers, the <em>Tree of Life<\/em> was an immediately identifiable symbol, celebrated in sermons, gift songs, and in their early history as a representation of the unity of the Shaker Church.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1280px-tree_of_life_-_1854-shaker_-_painted_by_hannah_cohoon.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24937\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/2025\/04\/07\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers\/1280px-tree_of_life_-_1854-shaker_-_painted_by_hannah_cohoon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1280px-tree_of_life_-_1854-shaker_-_painted_by_hannah_cohoon.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"602,420\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1280px-Tree_of_Life_-_1854 Shaker_-_painted_by_Hannah_Cohoon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1280px-tree_of_life_-_1854-shaker_-_painted_by_hannah_cohoon.jpeg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1280px-tree_of_life_-_1854-shaker_-_painted_by_hannah_cohoon.jpeg?w=602\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"602\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1280px-tree_of_life_-_1854-shaker_-_painted_by_hannah_cohoon.jpeg?w=602\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24937\" style=\"width:626px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><em>Tree of Life by Hannah Cohoon (1854)<\/em>.                                                                        \u00a0            <em> Ink and tempera on paper. Courtesy of Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">When we look at Cohoon\u2019s wonderful single-image paintings of trees we realise that her expertise in embroidery, the ornamental needlework of appliqu\u00e9, and her knowledge of quilting techniques were all present in her mind when she painted.  It was during a summer day in 1854, that Hannah Cohoon, who had been a member of the Shaker community in Hancock for thirty-seven years, had a vision of a singular and curious tree. She saw plainly the branches, leaves and fruit, and she sketched and painted them on a sheet of white paper. One of the Shaker elders saw what she had done and told her that the name of the tree was the Tree of Life.   Cohoon described how the vision came to her to create the\u00a0<em>Tree of Life<\/em>\u00a0drawing:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">\u201c<em>\u2026I received a draft of a beautiful Tree pencil\u2019d on large sheet of plain white paper bearing ripe fruit. I saw it plainly, it looked very singular and curious to me. I have since learned that this Tree grows in the Spirit Land. Afterwards the Spirit showed me plainly the branches, leaves and fruit, painted or drawn upon paper. The leaves were check\u2019d or cross\u2019d and the same colours you see here. I entreated\u00a0Mother Ann\u00a0to tell me the name of this tree which she did on Oct. 1st 4th hour P.M. by moving the hand of a medium to write twice over Your Tree is the Tree of Life\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/picture1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24959\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/2025\/04\/07\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers\/picture1-31\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/picture1.png\" data-orig-size=\"604,471\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Picture1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/picture1.png?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/picture1.png?w=604\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/picture1.png?w=604\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24959\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>A Bower of Mulberry Tree<\/em> by Hannah Cohoon. (1854). Ink and tempera on paper.  Courtesy of Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_-_a_bower_of_mulberry_trees_1854.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24947\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/2025\/04\/07\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers\/hannah_cohoon_-_a_bower_of_mulberry_trees_1854\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_-_a_bower_of_mulberry_trees_1854.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"484,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hannah_Cohoon_-_A_Bower_of_Mulberry_Trees_1854\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_-_a_bower_of_mulberry_trees_1854.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_-_a_bower_of_mulberry_trees_1854.jpg?w=484\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"484\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_-_a_bower_of_mulberry_trees_1854.jpg?w=484\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24947\" style=\"width:630px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>A Bower of Mulberry Trees by Hannah Cohoon (1854)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The main feature of Hannah\u2019s painting entitled<em> A Bower of Mulberry Trees<\/em> is dominated by the curving branches of trees that form an arch over a long Shaker table which is set out for a feast. It came from her vision of Shaker elders feasting on cakes under mulberry trees which were held at biennial meetings,. The doves represent the bounties that the believer would experience in heaven, and the table depicts holy feasts which were held biennially.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_a_little_basket_full_of_beautiful_apples_1856.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24965\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/2025\/04\/07\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers\/hannah_cohoon_a_little_basket_full_of_beautiful_apples_1856\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_a_little_basket_full_of_beautiful_apples_1856.gif\" data-orig-size=\"206,263\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hannah_Cohoon,_A_Little_Basket_Full_of_Beautiful_Apples,_1856\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_a_little_basket_full_of_beautiful_apples_1856.gif?w=206\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_a_little_basket_full_of_beautiful_apples_1856.gif?w=206\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"206\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hannah_cohoon_a_little_basket_full_of_beautiful_apples_1856.gif?w=206\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24965\" style=\"width:549px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>A Little Basket Full of Beautiful Apples by Hannah Cohoon (1856)     <\/em>                            <em>Art Work by Hannah Cohoon \/ Courtesy the Hancock Shaker Village Collection \/ American Folk Art Museum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hannah also completed <em>A Little Basket Full of Beautiful Apples<\/em> in 1856.  In his article for the <em>New Yorker<\/em> journal,  Adam Gopnik, a long-time staff writer for the paper, wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>.<em>..Shining Tree of Life  is among the key drawings in American art, with a tonic sense of abundance\u2014all the apples just alike, each with its rub-on of rouge, like blush applied by an adolescent girl\u2014allied to obsessive order\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Hannah Harrison Cohoon died in Hancock, Massachusetts, on January 7th, 1864, aged 75 and is buried in the family cemetery of the Church.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24969\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/2025\/04\/07\/hannah-harrison-cohoon-and-the-shakers\/book-2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"352,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"book 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book-2.jpg?w=211\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book-2.jpg?w=352\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"352\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/book-2.jpg?w=352\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24969\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">An image of Cohoon\u2019s Tree of Life appeared in a December 1945 Antiques magazine article by Edward Deming Andrews. Andrews used the image for the covers of his books,<em> Visions of Heavenly Sphere <\/em>and <em>Fruits of the Shaker Tree of Life <\/em>in 1969 and 1975.<br \/>The Hancock Shaker Village became a museum in 1960, and sometime after that the Andrews sold Cohoon\u2019s drawings and other gift drawings to the museum. Andrews also organized an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1935.<br \/>Her Tree of Life drawing was used in 1974 for a UNICEF Christmas postcard to raise funds for the organization. In 1980, the Whitney Museum of Art held another exhibition, \u201cAmerican Folk Painters of Three Centuries, which featured four of Cohoon\u2019s drawings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b648911dfada1a4c24f384d57eeaec1b66feb78b269303fad84847acbc3f194d?s=42&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b648911dfada1a4c24f384d57eeaec1b66feb78b269303fad84847acbc3f194d?s=42&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 1x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b648911dfada1a4c24f384d57eeaec1b66feb78b269303fad84847acbc3f194d?s=63&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 1.5x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b648911dfada1a4c24f384d57eeaec1b66feb78b269303fad84847acbc3f194d?s=84&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 2x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b648911dfada1a4c24f384d57eeaec1b66feb78b269303fad84847acbc3f194d?s=126&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 3x, https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b648911dfada1a4c24f384d57eeaec1b66feb78b269303fad84847acbc3f194d?s=168&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G 4x\" class=\"avatar avatar-42\" height=\"42\" width=\"42\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-avatar --><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-description\">\n<h2 class=\"author-title\"><span class=\"author-heading\">Author:<\/span> jonathan5485<\/h2>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\tJust someone who is interested and loves art.  I am neither an artist nor art historian but I am fascinated with the interpretaion and symbolism used in paintings and love to read about the life of the artists and their subjects.\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mydailyartdisplay.uk\/author\/jonathan5485\/\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tView all posts by jonathan5485\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-bio -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-description -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My short blog today is about n artist and a religion. It looks at the life and works of Hannah Cohoon, a person you may not have heard of before. 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