HISTORY

Around the year 1910, a patient at State Lunatic Asylum No. 3 (subsequently State Hospital No. 3) in Nevada, Missouri, who referred to himself as THE ELECTRIC PENCIL, executed 283 drawings in ink, pencil, crayon and colored pencil.  he drawings were done on both sides of 140 ledger pages, each bearing the name of the hospital. They were sewn into a hand made fabric and leather album.