Peter Hastings Falk
PETER HASTINGS FALK is the founder of RediscoveredMasters.com. He is the author of numerous monographs and art reference books, an independent curator, and U.S. Editor of Artprice.com.
June 2014Critics Page
Sometimes it takes an Outsider artist to remind us how the unconscious serves not only as a powerful source of inspiration but the only source that results in truly compelling art...
Ed Nelson (1907 – 92) was a recluse living in the foothills of Mount Hood in Oregon. In 1961 he experienced an epiphany that revealed the microcosm (atomic structure) as well as the macrocosm (the universe). Nelson recorded his observations with two distinctly different techniques and media as he plumbed the depths.
