Recent Exhibitions
Up Close: Henry Darger
October 7, 2008–September 6, 2009
This intimate installation showcases eight of the nearly three hundred watercolors Henry Darger created to illustrate his 15,000-page manuscript 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. Volume 6 of that epic is also on view.
The museum is home to the single largest public repository of works by Henry Darger (1892–1973), one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. The works on view in “Up Close: Henry Darger” are drawn from this extensive collection.
Brooke Davis Anderson, curator
The museum is home to the single largest public repository of works by Henry Darger (1892–1973), one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. The works on view in “Up Close: Henry Darger” are drawn from this extensive collection.
Brooke Davis Anderson, curator
Publications
Collection Catalog
Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum
By Brooke Davis Anderson, with Michel Thévoz; foreword by Kiyoko Lerner. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the American Folk Art Museum, 2001. 128 pages. Available at the museum shop.
Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum
By Brooke Davis Anderson, with Michel Thévoz; foreword by Kiyoko Lerner. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the American Folk Art Museum, 2001. 128 pages. Available at the museum shop.
Credits
Museum exhibitions are supported in part by the Leir Charitable Foundations in memory of Henry J. & Erna D. Leir, the Gerard C. Wertkin Exhibition Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.