The Henry Darger Room Collection at THE INTUIT CENTER CHICAGO

Veröffentlicht am 14.07.2015

SPEAKING OF HENRY DARGER…During a recent visit to Chicago, Kate and I happened upon the INTUIT CENTER. I made this video pan over their reconstruction of "Henry Darger’s living and working space, which was located at 851 Webster Street in Chicago. Intuit’s Henry Darger Room Collection includes tracings, clippings from newspapers, magazines, comic books, cartoons, children’s books, coloring books, personal documents, and architectural elements, fixtures, and furnishings from Darger’s original room… Darger lived in a one-room apartment in Chicago’s Lincoln Park until 1973 when he retired to a nursing facility. In his small room—which doubled as his studio and home for close to 40 years —he worked on a large number of painted and collaged drawings that illustrated the story of the Vivian Girls, created volumes of writings, and collected hundreds of objects (shoes, eyeglasses, balls of string, etc.)."