The Letchworth Drawings
Letchworth Village was an institution for the physically & mentally disabled.
These drawings are the work of former patients, dating from the 1930s-‘50s.
Known as the Draw-a-Man Test, developed by the American psychologist Florence Goodenough, this artwork served as a psychological evaluation to measure IQ, and to gain insight into each person’s psyche.
“The Refusal”
June Gutman
Pencil, colored pencil on paper
“I became a psychiatric patient when I was 13, and have spent a lot of time in and out of the hospital. In my early 20s I removed myself from the system because I realized it was hurting me.
I’m 30 now and am a ‘psychiatric survivor’ and this piece comes from a place of anger, fear, and refusal to go back into the system.”
Drawings made in the 1940s by unknown outsider artist Pablo Pagan. These works reveal his inner thoughts, including disfigurement, Japanese ritual suicide, and animal/ human metamorphosis.