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 ...

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

Henry Darger died in 1973, leaving behind hundreds of pieces of his artwork and writings. Now, a court may have to decide who really owns his work.

When the janitor-turned-artist Henry Darger died in Chicago at 81 in 1973, leaving a single room crammed with his colorful illustrations, a 15,000-page book and no immediate surviving relatives ...

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 ...

A hearing to help determine who has the rights to the estate of the janitor-turned-artist Henry Darger was postponed on Wednesday for procedural reasons in an Illinois probate court.. Distant ...

A court hearing to determine the rightful heirs to the estate of reclusive Chicago artist Henry Darger, who died in 1973, has been delayed until May while the judge reviews documents brought by ...

The Lincoln Park home where Henry Darger lived for 40 years, reclusively creating one of the world’s greatest and most baffling portfolios of outsider art, is going up for sale.

Henry Darger, a Chicago custodian who died in 1973 at the age of 81, led a life shrouded in secrecy and obsession, his psyche a battlefield of conflicting forces that drove him to write and ...

Dear editors: It’s fine that Michael Bonesteel is an enthusiastic supporter of the painter Henry Darger [“Secret Battles,” January 12]. Darger’s work is, initially at least, visually and ...

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, ...