Current understandings of Outsider Art had their origins among European artists and mental health professionals during and just after the First World War. This exhibition was an effort to enlarge the knowledge of Outsider art in the United States by presenting a selection of some of the most compelling self-taught European artists of the first half of the 20^th century, a time when the conception of Outsider art began to crystalize. Drawing extensively from the remarkable collection assembled by Hans Prinzhorn at the Psychiatric Clinic at the University of Heidelberg, the Hospital Sainte-Anne in Paris, as well as private collections in Europe and the United States, the exhibition presented artists whom Roger Cardinal characterized as exploring “the psychic elsewhere.”