That is his group of drawings of naked, prepubescent girls whose bodies ... of the birth of Henry Darger (1892-1973), the legendary, self-taught Chicago recluse whose work long ago earned a ...

Recluse janitor Henry Darger spent more ... the fantasy story of the Vivian Girls, seven Christian princesses who join a bloody rebellion against child enslavers. The work, which ultimately ...

Although he traced and painted and wrote in obscurity until the day he died, Henry Darger ... Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm ...

It took death for anyone to notice Henry ... girls - particularly the seven Vivian sisters, daughters of a general, who all are blonde and about 10 years old. Darger illustrated his works with ...

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 ...

Only later, of course, did the world take notice; only after he ceased to exist did Henry Darger begin to exist. In life, he and his work were invisible ... of brave warrior girls battling ...

For more than four decades, Henry Darger ... significant Darger works such as In the Realms of the Unreal, a 15,000-page illustrated narrative of a disturbing fantasy world of girls fighting ...

Much of his work is housed at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. The Art Institute of Chicago has some pieces. One Darger piece sold at auction for about $680,000. Henry Darger, artist and ...

As much as we’re fascinated by the art of Henry Darger — the self-taught artist whose life’s work was discovered ... children known as the Vivian Girls — have intrigued and shocked three ...