Wednesday, January 18, 2012

THE ELECTRIC PENCIL, The Artist's Identity has been discovered!




Our new VIDEO http://electricpencildrawings.com/video3.html tells the story of Outsider Artist James Edward Deeds Jr. Committed for Life at the tender age of 17 to Lunatic Asylum No.3, Nevada, MO in 1925 after a stormy adolescence and chronic abuse at the hands of his father

WHO WAS JAMES EDWARD DEEDS JR.?

Heavily subjected to psychotropic drugs and electric shock treatment, his is a tale of the need to create, even in the most adverse conditions. Deeds executed an extraordinary album of drawings, acknowledged as masterpieces of Outsider Art. The incarcerated artist created a world of formal beauty and calm in a life that could only be described as hellish. His story is a journey through changing times and the beginnings of our modern mental healthcare system.

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