The work of Martin Ramirez who was hospitalized for 30 years with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, is on display at the American Museum of Folk Art, in New York. Ramirez died in 1963 and spent the last 15 years of his life in DeWitt State Hospital, a military barracks in California that was converted into a psychiatric hospital after World War II. It was one of the hospitals singled out for over-crowding and for poor standards of care in the 1960s contributing to the movement to close state facilities. Ramirez came to national attention for the remarkable detail and precision of his drawings and collages.
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