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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Although he traced and painted and wrote in obscurity until the day he died, Henry Darger is, today, probably the best-known outsider artist in the world. In the past decade or so, the confines of his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...