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Artist
James Edward Deeds Jr.
(American, 1908 - 1987)
Untitled (Wind.Dot Tiger Girl / Car) (pages 7, 6)
Datec. 1936 - 1969
DimensionsFramed: 16 7/8 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/8 in. (42.9 × 40 × 2.9 cm)
Sight: 9 1/8 × 8 1/8 in. (23.2 × 20.6 cm)
Object numberN0020.2023(01)
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Frank Tosto in memory of R. David Sudarsky M.D.
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextDeeds’ portraits, with their arresting gazes, odd vintage costumes and elaborate accoutrements, are perhaps his most ambitious, inspired and unforgettable images. They are also his most distinctive contribution to the Outsider Art canon: each one features the same mesmerizing, enlarged pupils, gray shaded noses, thin, pursed mouths, and exaggerated chins. There's almost a formulaic approach to the way Deed’s drew faces, which leads one to think it’s a similar manner in which he saw the human face, with the eyes being the most important part of a person’s face, the proverbial “window of the soul.”On View
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