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- ↑ "George Widener - 53 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
- ↑ Treffert, Darold A. (2012). Islands of genius : the bountiful mind of the autistic, acquired, and sudden savant. London: Jessica Kingsley. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-84905-873-5. OCLC 780311266.
- ↑ Continuing the Robert Smith article from “Untamed Art From the Fringes Is a Gust of Bracing Air", The New York Times, January 28, 2005,
- "And at Henry Boxer, on a par with the work of Dû-Glass, by which I mean high, are the drawings of George Widener, a British mathematical savant in his 40s, who covers surfaces made of tea-stained paper napkins with profusions of numbers and words. The most magnificent of these reviews the sinking of the Titanic in considerable detail."
- ↑ It was Cardinal who, in 1972, coined the term "Outsider Art" as an English translation of the French term "Art Brut" (meaning "raw" or "rough" art).
- ↑ See The Psychologist News, Talent and Autism
- ↑ Das Datum ist dem Genius sein Code (German for "The date is the genius' code"), Exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2013, report at spiegel.de (german)
- Roger Cardinal "The Calendars of George Widener", Raw Vision magazine (issue #51)
- Johns Hopkins University, Autism/Netverse
