Rainbow Around the Moon
1952

BIOGRAPHY

Many unsolved mysteries surround the life of P.M. Wentworth. His date and place of birth are unknown, but he was listed in the San Francisco phone book from 1955 to 1959, and is thought to have worked as a nightwatchman at the San Francisco Navy Yard during this time. Other evidence suggests he may have died in Santa Monica about 1960. In the mid-1950s, a man left some forty mixed-media drawings by Wentworth with the well-known California psychologist Dr. Tarmo Pasto (who was also responsible for saving the work of famous Latin American outsider artist Martin Ramirez). Some of the Wentworth drawings dated from the 1930s, but most were from a later date. The inscriptions Wentworth wrote to accompany his images reveal deep concerns with Christian theology, the future, and life on other planets.

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.