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 ...

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 ...

Revolutions of the Night, a new documentary about famed outsider artist Henry Darger, begins like a horror movie, as two people investigate the ruins of a long-shuttered state sanatorium for children ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The Lincoln Park home where Henry Darger lived for 40 ...

The world of Henry Darger, the solitary Chicago janitor who became an icon of outsider art after his death, is already a deep and many-chambered rabbit hole. Darger spent most of his adult life in a ...

Princesses of the Christian land of Abbieannia, The Vivian Girls band together and battle against the varied monsters of child enslavement, often succumbing to torture and death. This was one of ...

The works of self-taught artist Henry Darger are the definition of that slightly condescending critical category known as the "interesting." You look at his phantasmagoric paintings, of naked little ...

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 ...

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

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Distant relatives are seeking to gain control of the outsider artist’s estate from a former landlord, who says that Darger gave the art and literary works he created to her husband. By Robin Pogrebin ...