Representatives of the artist’s estate are suing Darger’s longtime landlords, who brought his work to light after his death, for copyright infringement ...

Henry’s father died when he was seventeen, and after several unsuccessful attempts, he managed to escape from the misery of the asylum and make his way back to Chicago. It was during this time period ...

A reclusive Chicago artist’s work set to become subject of a court battle Henry Darger died in 1973, leaving behind hundreds of pieces of his artwork and writings. Now, a court may have to ...

It took death for anyone to notice Henry Darger. The tiny, unkempt recluse spent 54 years in the most menial of hospital jobs. In his off-hours, he attended Catholic Mass - as many as five times ...

In a former Lincoln Park boarding house, reclusive hospital janitor Henry Darger spent 40 years creating art that now hangs in museums.

Outsider art is art created by people outside the mainstream, self-taught, no influence by the traditional academy of art. I guess you could say that Henry Darger is the ultimate outsider artist.

In 1999, Keizo Kitajima photographed the apartment in Chicago where, unknown to others, the outsider artist Henry Darger created fantasy worlds only revealed near his death. Keizo Kitajima and ...

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 ...

The suit claims Kiyoko Lerner has no legal right to the work or the copyright of “outsider” artist Henry Darger, who died in 1973.

The show Henry Darger: Author/Artist and Unreal Realms commemorates the 125th birthday of one of Chicago's most famous outsider artists at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art on Jan ...