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August 25, 2006

After Hours: Frye's Darger exhibit bares reclusive mind

Photo by James Prinz
Henry Darger’s “At Sunbeam Creek” is on display at the Frye Art Museum. The image is a detail from a 19-by-71-inch work.

SEATTLE — Henry Darger, a self-taught artist and recluse who created and inhabited an imaginary world through extensive writings, paintings and drawings, gained notoriety when his works were discovered after his death in 1973.


 
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