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, led ...

Where did acclaimed outsider artist Henry Darger draw inspiration for his dreamlike murals? A new exhibit reveals his personal art collection for the first time. Henry Darger (1892–1973) Chicago 1959 ...

Artist Henry Darger lived in a rented room in a row home in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago for some 40 years, from 1932 to 1972. While there, unknown to his contemporaries, he created an ...

“There’s no getting around it,” one exhibitor said. “More people will see a work at a fair in three or four days than will come into your gallery in 10 years.” By Ted Loos Distant relatives are ...

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 1973 ...

Like any work of nonfiction, a biography relies on an interactive trust between author and audience. The audience grants it because the author earns it. And so it is not heartening to learn, early on ...

Henry Darger, “At McCalls Run Coller Junction Vivian girl saves strangling children from phenomenon of frightful shape” (1910–1970), crayon, encre, aquarelle ...

The breathtaking, disturbing, monumental artwork and writings of Henry Darger (1892-1973), a previously unknown and reclusive Chicago hospital janitor, were found shortly after he moved out of his ...

Henry Darger went unnoticed in life, but after his death, an amazing treasure trove of art, with bizarre sexual aspects, was found in his cluttered apartment. It took death for anyone to notice Henry ...

Henry Darger was an orphan, a janitor, a cranky old recluse. He spent his days poking through trash bins and his nights in a wooden chair. He lived 40 years in a single room on Webster Avenue, but not ...

Darger's neighbors talk about his collection of newspapers and emphemera. In the second clip associated with the "In the Realms of the Unreal": The Artist and Society lesson plan, Henry Darger's ...