In 1996, American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer ... From the New York Times piece: The paintings starkly reveal the artist’s descent into dementia, as his world began ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a series of self-portraits he painted to document the progressive ravaging of his brain by Alzheimer's disease, William ... paintings take on a primitive style, though ...

In Newshour, William Utermohlen and his wife ... record of the destruction wrought by the illness. In a series of paintings, currently discussed in The Lancet and soon to be the focus of an ...

In a series of self-portraits he painted to document the progressive ravaging of his brain by Alzheimer's disease, William ... the paintings take on a primitive style, though Utermohlen told ...

"These paintings actually prove that consciousness ... If you want to see " Portraits From the Mind: the Works of William Utermohlen - 1955 to 2000," it is on display at the Chicago Cultural ...