MCA – Collection: Henry Darger, Untitled (At Aronburg Run vivvia Glorina Vivian Girls, and Walter Starring in Searching for body of murdered Aronburg Child, narrowly escape capture/), Date unknown

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Images of Henry Darger, Untitled (At Aronburg Run vivvia Glorina Vivian Girls, and Walter Starring in Searching for body of murdered Aronburg Child, narrowly escape capture/)

A pale, multimedia landscape with a mountain range, voluminous clouds on the horizon, and a lake and beach in the foreground is dotted with men wearing square black hats and girls wearing blue dresses. — Henry Darger, American, 1892–1972
Untitled (At Aronburg Run vivvia Glorina Vivian Girls, and Walter Starring in Searching for body of murdered Aronburg Child, narrowly escape capture/), Date unknown
Watercolor, graphite, carbon ink, and collage on paper (two sided)
Sheet: 19 × 71 3/4 in. (48.3 × 182.2 cm.)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz in memory of their son Thomas B. Rubnitz, 1996.11.a-b
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

This wide drawing is divided into three sections with different scenes of young girls playing: in the yard of a house, in a forest, and in front of a stone castle. — Henry Darger, American, 1892–1972
Untitled (At Aronburg Run vivvia Glorina Vivian Girls, and Walter Starring in Searching for body of murdered Aronburg Child, narrowly escape capture/), Date unknown
Watercolor, graphite, carbon ink, and collage on paper (two sided)
Sheet: 19 × 71 3/4 in. (48.3 × 182.2 cm.)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Susan B. and Dr. Myron E. Rubnitz in memory of their son Thomas B. Rubnitz, 1996.11.a-b
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago

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Henry Darger, I wish this was my home, Date unknown
Henry Darger, Untitled (At Jennie Richee--Mabel introduces her blengin sisters (three of them) to the little Vivians one p.m./At Jennie Richee 12:35 p.m. storm breaks loose (Vivian girls) seeking shelter with blengin friends, Date unknown
1. Short This wide, colored drawing depicts the interior of a house with more than a dozen young girls in dresses and four nude figures with large horns and striped tails. Six large windows reveal a lightening storm outside.
Henry Darger, Untitled (Blengin creature/Despite being defended), Date unknown
Henry Darger, Untitled (with help of blue winged blengen frustrate enemy/ 305 foot palm trees, Date unknown
1. Short In this wide drawing of a whimsical landscape, dark clouds roll in on the right and a house, two fairies with large butterfly wings, trees, and other objects blow in the window. Seven blond girls in dresses and one naked brunette girl sit or stand in the foreground with three men talking in the bushes behind them.
Henry Darger, Untitled Dragon, Date unknown