or Blazing Tree, is estimated at seven times the record amount for a Shaker drawing. It sold at Sotheby's for $299,500 to the Museum of American Folk Art in January, 1997. She also made A Little Basket Full of Beautiful Apples in 1856. Adam Gopnik wrote in his article "Shining Tree of Life" for The New Yorker that the drawing is "among the key drawings in American art, with a tonic sense of abundance—all the apples just alike, each with its rub-on of rouge, like blush applied by an adolescent girl—allied to obsessive order." Cohoon is most well known as a creator of gift drawings, particularly for The Tree of Life. She is mostly known for her paintings, but she also composed music. Death and legacy Hannah Harrison Cohoon died in Hancock, Massachusetts on January 7, 1864, and is buried in the family cemetery of the Church. Sister Alice Smith of Hancock Shaker Village brought four gift drawings to Faith and Edward Deming Andrews, Shaker historians by 1931. The Andrews organized an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1935. An image of Cohoon's Tree of Life appeared in a December, 1945 Antiques magazine article by Edward Deming Andrews. The Andrews used the image for the covers of Visions of Heavenly Sphere and Fruits of the Shaker Tree of Life in 1969 and 1975. The Hancock Shaker Village became a museum in 1960 and sometime after that the Andrews sold Cohoon's drawings and other gift drawings to the museum.<ref name="Schorch">David A. Schorsch and Ruth Wolfe. [http://www.afanews.com/articles/item/1641-a-cutwork-tree-of-life-in-the-manner-of-hannah-cohoon A Cutwork Tree of Life in the manner of Hannah Cohoon.] AFANews. February 23, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2014.</ref> Her Tree of Life drawing was used in 1974 for a UNICEF Christmas postcard to raise funds for the organization. The Whitney Museum of Art held exhibited four of Cohoon's drawings in the "American Folk Painters of Three Centuries" show in 1980. Her works were exhibited at the "Shaker - Masterworks of Utilitarian Design" show at the Katonah Gallery, New York in 1983. The director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, Gerard C. Wertkin, said that Cohoon is "considered the pre-eminent Shaker artist" and her works "have become icons of Shaker material culture. Notes See also Cora Helena Sarle, another Shaker watercolor artist References Further reading J.F. Crostwaite, "The Spirit Drawings of Hannah Cohoon: Window on the Shakers