18. HENRY DARGER
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144 At Jennie Richee. Waiting for the blinding rain to
stop. (double-sided)
Date: 1950–1970
Materials: Watercolor, pencil, carbon tracing, and
collage on pieced paper
60,96 × 273,685
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172 At Jennie Richee. Storm continues. Lightning
strikes shelter but no one is injured. (double-sided)
Date: Mid-twentieth century
Materials: Watercolor, pencil, carbon tracing, and
collage on pieced paper
Dimensions: 60,96 × 273,685
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In
1892 in Chicago, USA
Studies:
- At age 8, young Darger was placed in the Mission of
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic orphanage and boys home ( Chicago) which was where
he first earned the nickname "Crazy," and attended Skinner Elementary
school.
- At the age of
12, his father and Dr. Otto Schmidt signed the papers that would have him sent
downstate to the Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children in Lincoln, IL. The reason
stated on his admission papers was "self abuse," or excessive
indulgence in masturbation.
- Darger was hired as a floor janitor at St. Joseph's
Hospital, Burling and Dickens, where he also lived from 1909 to 1922.
- From this years and on, he worked as a hospital
custodian in Chicago, Illinois and his life rutine followed a pattern that
seems to have varied little and may be a sign of an Asperger Syndrom: he
attended Mass daily, frequently returning for as many as five services; he
collected and saved a bewildering array of trash from the streets. His dress
was shabby, although he attempted to keep his clothes clean and mended. He was
largely solitary; his one close friend, William Schloeder, was of like mind on
the subject of protecting abused and neglected children, and the pair proposed
founding a "Children's Protective Society", which would put such
children up for adoption to loving families.
- Those where the years when he wrote and illustrated
the works who have taken him to fame.
- Darger died the day after his 81st birthday in 1973.
He was virtually unknown at the time of his death, but in the last quarter of
the 20th century, and particularly in the early years of the 21st, his work has
become part of museum collections in Chicago, New York, Paris, and Lausanne and
his name is one that is now recognized throughout the world.
Themes and style:
He has become famous for his posthumously discovered
15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian
Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian
War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred
drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story.[2] The visual subject
matter of his work ranges from idyllic scenes in Edwardian interiors and
tranquil flowered landscapes populated by children and fantastic creatures, to
scenes of horrific terror and carnage depicting young children being tortured
and massacred.[3] Much of his artwork is mixed media with collage elements.
Darger's artwork has become one of the most celebrated examples of outsider
art.
Techniques:
Watercolour
Exhibitions
Henry Darger
(1892-1973), Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2012-2013
Henry Darger.
Landscapes, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, New York
Henry Darger
Exhibition with other outsider artists, Hyogo Museum at Hyogo Prefecture,
Japan, collaboration with Yomiuri Newspapers, Museum co-operation, abcd
2011
Henry Darger, American
Innocence, Welcome to the Realms of the Unreal, La foret Museum Harakuju,
Tokyo, Japan
2010
Henry Darger: The
Certainties of War, American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York
Henry Darger, Andrew
Edlin Gallery, New York, New York
Up Close: Henry Darger
and the Coloring Book, American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York
The Private
Collection of Henry Darger,American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York
2008
Up Close: Henry
Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York
Henry Darger Room
Collection (exposition permanente ouverte en janvier 2008), Intuit: The Center
for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois
Henry Darger, Intuit:
The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois
Darger Discoveries.
Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, New York
Henry Darger
Exhibition with other outsider artists, Contemporary Museum, Shiga Prefecture,
Japan, collaboration with abcd
2007
Drawn from the Home
of Henry Darger, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Henry Darger: A Story
of Girls at War, Of Paradises Dreamed, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,
Japan in collaboration with the Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner Foundation
2006
Henry Darger, The
Vivian Girls Emerge, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, New York
Bruit et Fureur : L'Oeuvre
de Henry Darger (Sound and Fury : The Art of Henry Darger) , La Maison Rouge,
Paris, France
Henry Darger :
Highlights from the American Folk Art Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Henry Darger, Frye
Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
2005
Henry Darger
Exhibition with other outsider artists, House of Shiseido, collaboration with
Shiseido
2004
Henry Darger: Art and
Myth, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, New York
Henry Darger
Exhibition with other outsider artists, Mercian Karuizawa Museum, Nagano
Prefecture, Japan, in collaboration with Villeneuve d'Asque, Lille Métropole
Modern Museum, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
2003
Henry Darger, Magasin
3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockolm, Sweden
Visions Realized :
The Paintings and Process of Henry Darger, Intuit : The Center for Intuitive
and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois
2002
Henry Darger: In the
Realms of the Unreal, The Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Studies and Sketches
: Henry Darger, Eva and Morris Feld Gallery, American Folk Art Museum, New
York, New York
2001
Darger: The Henry
Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum, American Folk Art Museum,
New York, New York
Henry Darger, KW
Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2000
Henry Darger : Realms
of the Unreal, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
New Works by Henry
Darger, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, New York
1999
Henry Darger and his
Realms,G alerie St. Etienne, New York, New York
1997
Henry Darger, Les
aventures des Vivian Girls, Ginza Art Space Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan, in
collaboration with Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
1996
Henry Darger: The
Unreality of Being, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City , Iowa;
American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York (1997), Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, San Francisco, California (1997); The High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
Georgia (1997); Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
(1998)
Henry J. Darger: Dans
les Royaumes de l'Irréel, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
1993
Henry Darger
Exhibition with other outsider artists, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan, in
collaboration with LA County Museum & Asahi News Papers
1987
Henry Darger, Rosa
Esman Gallery, New York, New York
Henry Darger, Phyllis
Kind Gallery, New York, New York
The Extraordinary Art
of Henry Darger, (graduate student exhibition), Krannert Art Museum, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois
1980
The Drawings of Henry
Darger, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, New York
1977
The Realms of the
Unreal, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
Collections
Abcd, Montreuil, Paris, France
American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York
The Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Intuit – The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art,
Chicago, Illinois
The Museum of Everything, London, England
Lille métropole musée d’art moderne d’art
contemporain et d’art brut, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris,
France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Roger Brown Study Collection, Chicago, Illinois
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
In his own words:
"I hated to see the day come when I
will be grown up. I never wanted to. I wished to be young always."
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