Darger Discoveries
Anyone planning a trip off island into New York over the next few months could do alot worse than pop along to the The Andrew Edlin Gallery - currently playing host to one of the most celebrated examples of outsider artists America has ever known.
Henry Joseph Darger was a reclusive American writer and artist who became famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal along with several hundred beautiful and brilliant drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story.
Andrew Edlin Gallery
529 W. 20th St., 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011
28 March 2008 - 07 June 2008
(*Image ArtSlant © Kiyoko Lerner, Courtesy Andrew Edlin Gallery. Henry Darger, Darger Discoveries, March 28 - June 7, 2008; Andrew Edlin Gallery, Darger Discoveries.)
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