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Title
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Lost for Years, Drawings and Artist Find Acceptance
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Description
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Article focuses upon the story of Edward Deeds, who as a boy in the early 1920s was committed to State Lunatic Asylum No. 3 after threatening his younger brother with a hatchet. The author describes how Deeds occupied his time by creating drawings on hospital ledger paper. Deeds was discharged from the hospital in 1973 and passed away while living in a nursing home in 1987. Details concerning how his collection of drawings was lost and rediscovered are provided.
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Date
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2013-05-05
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
