1981
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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Keith Haring Drawings poster 1982 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi gallery 1982)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1982: The much historic early Keith Haring exhibition poster, illustrated by Haring on the occasion of: 'Keith Haring Drawings' Oct. 9 - Nov. 13 - ...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Museumjournaal 1982 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring 1982: A rare printed announcement card offset illustrated by Keith Haring to promote the Dutch art publication, Museumjournaal. Medium: offset printed announcement card...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Paul Maenz 1984 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany 1984: Super rare, tri-fold poster booklet published to announce Haring’s 1984 solo exhibition at Paul Maenz Gallery in Cologne (Hari...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Fault Lines 1986 (4 works)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Fault Lines 1986 (set of 4 printed works): A grouping of 4 lithographs from the book Fault Lines by Brison Gysin with illustrations by Keith Haring. These works are eac...
Lithograph
Keith Haring Milan c.1989 (vintage Keith Haring)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Milan c.1989 Rare vintage Milan exhibition announcement circa late 1980’s featuring offset printed artwork by Keith Haring. Uniquely rendere...
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring lithographic insert 1982 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi 1982)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Lithograph 1982: Double-sided lithographic insert from the seminal spiral bound, 1982 Tony Shafrazi catalog published on the occasion of Haring's first gallery solo exhi...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring ( after ) Chromolithograph - Without title.
By Keith Haring
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Keith Haring. Chromolithograph. Printed signature. Numbered in pencil on bottom left, edition of 150 copies. Number 63/150 Embossed stamp by The Keith Haring Foundation on bottom lef...
Paper
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
Against all Odds
By Keith Haring
Located in Miami, FL
Keith Haring Against all Odds 1990 Four works from the Against All Odds, 20 Drawings series, 1990 Lithographs Ed of 500 28 x 24 in with frame 8 x 10 1...
Lithograph
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
Playboy, Silkscreen Poster by Keith Haring 1990
By Keith Haring
Located in Long Island City, NY
A limited edition silkscreen poster Keith Haring designed for Playboy. This limited edition run of 1000 was published in 1990 by Special Editions Ltd. The signature and date 'KH 86' ...
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...
Screen
