1988
Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art.
Haring’s paintings, prints and murals address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. They derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he uses to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture.
To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring imagery by Haring and contemporaries like Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While his works sometimes included text, for the most part, he chose to communicate through drawing.
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times,” Haring once declared. “It lives through magic.”
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Growing (Plate 3), from the Growing Portfolio
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Growing (Plate 3), from the Growing Portfolio Size: 40 x 30 Inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm) Medium: Screenprint in colors, on Lenox Museum Board, with full mar...
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Untitled (Free South Africa), one plate
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Untitled (Free South Africa): one plate Size: 39 7/8 x 39 1/2 in. (81 x 100.3 cm) Medium: Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins Ed...
Lithograph
Apocalypse 6
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Apocalypse 6 Size: 38 × 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board Edition: WP (Working Proof) of 90 Year: 1988 Notes: Ha...
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Untitled
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Untitled (Plate 1) Size: 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm) Medium: Lithograph of Arches Paper Edition: 23 of 40 Year: 1982 Notes: From a suite of six prints. S...
Lithograph
Pop Shop I (3)
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Pop Shop I (3) Size: 12 × 15 in (30.5 × 38.1 cm) Medium: Silkscreen in colors on wove paper Edition: 151 of 200 Year: 1987 Notes: Hand signed, numbered, a...
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The King
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: The King Size: 23 3/8 × 29 7/8 in 59.4 × 75.9 cm Medium: Lithograph Edition: of 50 Year: 1989 Notes: Hand Signed, Numbered & Dated in Pencil. Custom F...
Lithograph
Growing (Plate 4), from the Growing Portfolio, 1988
By Keith Haring
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Keith Haring Growing (Plate 4), 1988 Vibrant, energetic, and instantly recognizable, Growing (Plate 4) exemplifies Keith Haring’s iconic visual ...
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Growing 2 Screen Print by Keith Haring, Abstract Expressionist, 1988
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Growing (Plate 2), is the second installment of the artist’s Growing portfolio of 1988. This silkscreen has a background of bright yellow and depicts around six teal fig...
Screen
Growing II
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Iconic imagery with a playful content, either consciously or unconsciously influenced by indigenous art, Keith Haring’s Growing II is a brilliant ...
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Growing (1), Screen Print by Keith Haring, Pop Art, Signed, 21/100, 1988
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board. Hand signed, dated and numbered by Keith Haring. Image size 38.75 x 28.5 inches. Edition 21/100 (there were also 15 artist's proofs). P...
Paper, Screen
Growing 1 Screen Print by Keith Haring, 1980s, New Wave Style, Signed
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
One of the most prolific pop and graffiti artists of all time, Haring is a symbol of creativity, love and joy in the face of hardship. Starting as a guerrilla artist in the subways o...
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Keith Haring: Into 1984/Tony Shafrazi Gallery
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Color offset lithograph. Signed and dated in felt-tip pen and pink ink, lower right. Published by Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York. Presented in black wood frame (36.5" x 24.75") M...
Color, Lithograph, Offset
