Box 76
Container
Contains 4 Results:
Clippings, Newsprint -- Architecture, 1943-1960
File — Box: 76, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: Sub-Series C
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains the resource materials that Darger used in his visual artwork, including clippings from coloring books, comic books, newspapers, and periodicals. The series contains imagery common in many of his artworks, such as soldiers and assorted Civil War imagery, disasters (volcanoes, fires, tornadoes), images of girls, a limited number of images of boys, drawings of Darger’s blengin characters (winged beings with curved horns), clippings of flora, fauna, and miscellaneous...
Dates:
1943-1960
Transfer drawings -- Little Miss Muffet
File — Box: 76, Folder: 5
Identifier: Sub-Series D
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains a collection of Darger’s paper-based collaged imagery and portraiture, which often contains compositions made from of a multitude of news and magazine clippings, primarily of young girls and assorted religious imagery. The collages are often mounted on cardboard. Some are framed by a border of postage stamps, some contain inscriptions by Darger, and all are often covered by a glaze of glue or lacquer. The collages are commonly seen hanging in Darger’s apartment as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1909 - 1965
Transfer drawing -- Cinderella girl
File — Box: 76, Folder: 7
Identifier: Sub-Series D
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains a collection of Darger’s paper-based collaged imagery and portraiture, which often contains compositions made from of a multitude of news and magazine clippings, primarily of young girls and assorted religious imagery. The collages are often mounted on cardboard. Some are framed by a border of postage stamps, some contain inscriptions by Darger, and all are often covered by a glaze of glue or lacquer. The collages are commonly seen hanging in Darger’s apartment as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1909 - 1965
Transfer drawing -- Cowgirl waving hat
File — Box: 76, Folder: 9
Identifier: Sub-Series D
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains a collection of Darger’s paper-based collaged imagery and portraiture, which often contains compositions made from of a multitude of news and magazine clippings, primarily of young girls and assorted religious imagery. The collages are often mounted on cardboard. Some are framed by a border of postage stamps, some contain inscriptions by Darger, and all are often covered by a glaze of glue or lacquer. The collages are commonly seen hanging in Darger’s apartment as...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1909 - 1965