Untitled (Two Girls and a Dog Sitting in a Garden) by Henry Darger, 1959
Roberta Smith of The New York Times sends out an S.O.S. to save the American Folk Art Museum:
Please. Someone, everyone, do something to save the American Folk Art Museum from dissolution and dispersal. Or at least slow down the process, so that all options can be thoroughly considered. New York’s contemporary artists, and New York as a whole, need the creative energy of this stubborn, single-minded little institution, its outstanding exhibition program and its wondrous collection, an unparalleled mixture of classic American folk art and 20th-century outsider geniuses. (more)
20th century American outsider artist and recluse, Henry Darger is one of the museum's stars with over 5,000 works.