Friday 8 March 2013

JAMES EDWARD DEEDS @ Collection de L'Art Brut, Lausanne

Photo : Harris Diamant

James Edward Deeds

15/03 - 30/06/2013
Collection de l'Art Brut

First solo show in Europe of the American Art Brut creator Edward Deeds (1908-1987), aka "The Electric Pencil." On display will be about 70 two-sided drawings done in colored pencil on ledger pages used by Missouri State Hospital No.3, a mental hospital in the city of Nevada, to which Deeds was committed in 1925, at the age of 17, and where he remained for 52 years (until 1977).

Collection de l'Art Brut
11, av. des Bergières
CH - 1004 Lausanne
Tél. +41 21 315 25 70
Fax +41 21 315 25 71
www.artbrut.ch

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