Hemingway, Houdini & The Witch

Published 7:00 am Friday, September 30, 2016

THE ELECTRIC PENCIL

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By James Edward Deeds JR. (Princeton Architectural Press $29.95

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This is a remarkable book, not only for the fact that the pencil and crayon drawings were made by 26-year-old Deeds confined to a mental hospital for life. Deeds had no training in art and not even paint, palette or inks. He drew what he remembered and what he imagined on hospital ledger sheets.  Remarkable, too, that a 14-year-old boy rescued the drawings from a thrash heap.