The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton (Used Hardcover) - Don Lambert, Elizabeth Layton

Condition: This book is in Very Good Condition, with only slight wear to the edges of the dust cover. The pages are clean and unmarked.

Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton died at age 83, March 15, 1993. She never sold her art, but now millions know at least something about her art and the story of how she drew her way out of mental illness.

Layton was 68 years old and had undergone 13 shock therapy treatments when she discovered contour drawing in 1977. Spending hour after hour, day after day, in front of a mirror, drawing herself without looking at the paper, Layton worked her way through depression and raised her self-esteem.

Ten years following the "art cure," the drawings of Grandma Layton have hung in hundreds of museums and galleries, and her story has been told by TV, radio and print across the country.

Nowhere in art have old age and marriage been depicted so honestly and yet with such emotional force, not as saccharine lives, but with the bitter sweetness of life.

By using her own image to stand for all invisible, abused humanity, Layton has brought universal hope through her art.

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