Representative work by Keith Haring
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Artist

Keith Haring

1958–1990 · American · Based in New York, New York

  • School of Visual Arts, New York (1979)
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Public Art
  • Sculpture

Keith Haring developed an instantly recognizable language of radiant babies, barking dogs and interlocking figures through chalk drawings in the New York subway and large public works. He used that accessible graphic vocabulary to address sexuality, AIDS, racism, nuclear anxiety and social activism.

Drawing; painting; mural; sculpture

Gallery Representation

Major Works

  • 1986Crack Is Wack
  • 1980sRadiant Baby
  • 1980sUntitled (Barking Dog)
  • 1989Tuttomondo
  • 1989Once Upon a Time
  • 1989Silence = Death
  • 1980sPop Shop drawings
  • 1980–85Subway Drawings
  • 1989Ignorance = Fear
  • 1987We the Youth

Museums & Public Collections

Interviews & Writing

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