Bibliograph

The Electric Pencil, drawings from inside State Hospital No. 3, James Edward Deeds Jr. ; Introduction by Richard Goodman ; foreword by Harris Diamant

Type

Label

The Electric Pencil, drawings from inside State Hospital No. 3, James Edward Deeds Jr. ; Introduction by Richard Goodman ; foreword by Harris Diamant

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Electric Pencil

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907585923

Responsibility statement

James Edward Deeds Jr. ; Introduction by Richard Goodman ; foreword by Harris Diamant

Sub title

drawings from inside State Hospital No. 3

Summary

The meticulous, and wildly imaginative pencil and crayon drawings portray an unusual cast of characters: nineteenth-century dandies, Civil War soldiers, country landscapes dotted with roaming animals, and fanciful architecture-- none of which existed in the actual mid-twentieth-century landscape of Deeds's own life. Deeds bound his artwork as a present for his mother, and in 1970 the album was rescued from the trash. Originally done on ledger sheets from State Hospital No. 3 in Nevada, Missouri, here they are reproduced in the sequence of the original album

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