NEW YORK, NY.- What Henry Darger displayed
on the
walls of his apartment in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago is on
public
view, for the first time, in the exhibition The Private Collection of
Henry
Darger, from April 6 through September 19, 2010. Brooke Davis
Anderson,
curator and director of The Contemporary Center and the Henry Darger
Study
Center, has selected nearly 40 cardboard collages from the more than 80
in
Darger’s personal collection that are now part of the American Folk Art
Museum’s
holdings. These are the artworks that Darger lived with and saw every
day.