Famous images such as Benjamin West's "Penn's Treaty With the Indians" and Edward Hicks' "The Peaceable Kingdom" are part of an exhibition of 19th-century paintings that has begun a six-venue national tour at a new public gallery here.

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"Telling Tales: Nineteenth-Century Narrative Painting From the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts" blends esthetic and moral qualities, and is rich in history, too.The exhibition will also be shown at the Greenville, S.C., County Museum of Art, though Feb. 28, 1993; the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., March 14-May 9, 1993; the Art Center, College of Design, Pasadena, Calif., June 20-Aug. 21, 1993; and Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 5, 1993-Jan. 30, 1994.

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