Taking its cue from the controversial paintings of its odd subject, pic is not so much a biography as a cinematic collage, examining Henry Darger, a self-taught artist who has been posthumously ...

When Chicago custodian Henry Joseph Darger died in 1973, he left behind an apartment full of bric-a-brac – like newspaper clippings, personal diaries and balls of twine – that was in some ways typical ...

For much of his life, Henry Darger was almost invisible. He was an odd man -- a reclusive janitor whose outside life revolved around going to church and monitoring the weather. But in death, Darger ...

Who could have guessed that the unassuming, reclusive Henry Darger, shambling old janitor at a series of Chicago-area hospitals, was in fact one of the great, mysterious primitive artists of the 20th ...

Could there be a more difficult twentieth-century artist to document on film than Henry Darger (1892-1973)? Only a few photographs of this Chicago janitor survive, and almost no one took note of his ...