Henry Darger was a reclusive American writer and artist who has become one of the most celebrated examples of outsider art. After his death in 1973, his 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-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story were discovered in his apartment. Darger’s works are now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the American Folk Museum in New York, and have been referenced in popular culture by visual artists, writers, and musicians such as Natalie Merchant, the Vivian Girls and Sufjan Stevens. Check out more of his work to see some awesome, trippy, beautifully detailed drawings!
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