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Personal belongings and artifacts are inside the Henry Darger Room Collection at the Henry Darger: Author/Artist and Unreal Realms show commemorating the 125th birthday of one of Chicago's most famous outsider artists at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art on Jan. 31, 2017.
Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune
Personal belongings and artifacts are inside the Henry Darger Room Collection at the Henry Darger: Author/Artist and Unreal Realms show commemorating the 125th birthday of one of Chicago’s most famous outsider artists at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art on Jan. 31, 2017.
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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 one-room apartment in Lincoln Park, a neighborhood much less tony in his time. When he died in 1973, his landlords and neighbors, who were virtually his only friends, discovered in the apartment a riot of creative output.