A legal battle over the valuable estate of Outsider art star Henry Darger looks to be heating up in Chicago, and the stakes are high. In recent years, a group of about 50 distant family members ...

Donation Options Search Search Search A re-creation of the one-room apartment of reclusive artist Henry Darger at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. AP file Share The work of ...

Arguably the most famous and influential outsider artist of the 20th century, Henry Darger has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions, has been the subject of several books and a ...

Now relatives are challenging that stewardship in court. By Robin Pogrebin When the janitor-turned-artist Henry Darger died in Chicago at 81 in 1973, leaving a single room crammed with his ...

Recluse janitor Henry Darger spent more than 40 years in a tiny one-room apartment in Lincoln Park, writing, painting, sketching, collecting and fantasizing. It wasn’t until after his death in ...

For more than four decades, Henry Darger created hundreds of watercolours, pencil drawings, collages and more in his small Chicago apartment, envisioning his own world through storybook-like ...

Henry Darger is doubtless the world's most celebrated lifelong menial laborer, having worked diligently not only as a janitor, but also in later life as a dishwasher and (finally) a winder of ...

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As much as we’re fascinated by the art of Henry Darger — the self-taught artist whose life’s work was discovered in his Chicago apartment after his death in 1973 — it has always made us ...

Outsider artist Henry Darger left behind a fifteen-thousand-page illustrated novel that features a complex interpretation of ...