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. http://electricpencildrawings.com His story is a journey through changing times and the beginnings of our modern mental healthcare system. 

New Video "Outsider Art and the Electric Pencil"

Lyle Rexer, Art critic and author, discusses Outsider Art

and the Drawings of the Electric Pencil. He highlights

the important elements of the collection that place this

work with the greats of the Outsider Art world and takes

us on a journey through some of these fascinating images.

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