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The Electric Pencil: A long-lost cache of sketches by a state mental hospital inmate finally yields up some of its secrets

By Aimee Levitt September 14, 2012

Two hundred eighty-three drawings: all done in crayon and colored pencil on ledger paper bearing the imprimatur of Missouri State Hospital No. 3, a mental asylum in Nevada, dated... More >>>

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Drawing by Edward Deeds.

Deeds filled his work with images of his private obsessions — including geography, toy boats, the Civil War and circuses.

Harris Diamant purchased the Deeds collection in 2007 and, with his wife, Neville Bean, published a book of the drawings.

The farmhouse in Ozark where the Deeds family lived. In order to maintain a fragile peace with his father, who regularly beat him, Deeds lived alone in an older house on the edge of the property.

The main building of State Hospital No. 3 in Nevada was torn down in 1999. But the outbuildings remain -- some have been converted into college classrooms and senior housing -- and it's still possible to see how the facility used to be a working farm.

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Harris Diamant purchased the Deeds collection in 2007 and, with his wife, Neville Bean, published a book of the drawings.

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Harris Diamant purchased the Deeds collection in 2007 and, with his wife, Neville Bean, published a book of the drawings.

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