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The electric pencil : drawings from inside State Hospital No. 3

by James Edward Deeds, Jr., Richard Goodman, Harris Diamant

This volume reproduces 283 pencil and crayon drawings created on ledger paper during the artist's residency at a Missouri state hospital. The collection depicts an imaginative inner world of nineteenth-century figures, landscapes, and antique machinery.

Accession 12321 ISBN 9781616894542 Publisher Princeton University Press
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