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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Stefano Esposito

Federal lawsuit filed in case of reclusive North Side artist whose work became world famous.

A re-creation of the one-room apartment of reclusive artist Henry Darger at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 756 N. Milwaukee Ave. (AP file)

The work of Chicago “outsider” artist Henry Darger has been displayed in galleries and museums across the globe and has generated millions of dollars.

But Kiyoko Lerner and her late husband, Nathan Lerner, had no legal right to possess the reclusive artist’s watercolor paintings, sketches and extensive writings after he died in 1973, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week.

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