Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a psychiatric patient finds a worm coming out of his food. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

[1954?]

1 drawing : pencil ; sheet 30 x 23 cm

The entree

One drawing of twelve in a sketchbook inscribed "Dudley R. Wilder". There is a record of a Dudley Raymond Wilder (1916-1957) who worked as a commercial artist in California from the 1930s to the 1950s and served as a staff sergeant in the US Marine Corps in 1943-1944. The quality of the drawings, and some of the military references, suggest they could well be by him, possibly in the last years of his life where confinement preceded an early death at the age of 41

Wellcome Collection 2046878i