Since the beginning of recorded history, humanity has dreamed of a paradise lost that we hope will one day be regained. As we enter the summer months, hoping to put the pandemic period behind us, I'm adding a new page to the Old Testament Tales gallery of the Bible Stories & Parables section titled The Peaceable Kingdom presenting a text from the Eleventh Chapter of Isaiah with accompanying images from four American artists, depicting a future Messianic Kingdom where justice and harmony reign and the predators of the animal world peacefully coexist with their prey. Children's Book Illustrator Jonathan Bean from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, shows a wolf sitting next to a lamb in a blue-tinted linocut. In the mixed media piece, We Can Lay Down Together, Kim Jones, a self-taught artist from Minnesota, depicts curious wild animals gathered around a sleeping baby in a basket. Rick Beerhorst, a Michigan born painter and printmaker now living in Paris, presents the creatures from the biblical passage and the little child who will lead them in an urban setting. Rounding out the list, German-American Illustrator, Fritz Eichenberg, a long time contributor to the Catholic Worker newspaper of Social Activist Dorothy Day, merges the menagerie of the biblical text into the profile (above) of a bearded man (with a striking resemble to Eichenberg!) in the style of the vegetable portraits of Italian Renaissance Painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo. More images on the theme appear in a meditation on Pennsylvania Quaker Artist Edward Hick's much-loved series of folk art paintings of The Peaceable Kingdom in the Art Connections gallery of the Moments with Masters section (John Kohan)