1986
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 Galerie Watari poster 1983 (vintage Keith Haring)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Galerie Watari Exhibition Poster, 1983: Medium: Offset-lithograph on smooth wove paper. Dimensions: 20 x 27 inches. Condition...
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 Fertility: set of 5 announcements 1983 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Fertility 1983: A complete set of five 1983 Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi promotional cards published to promote Keith Haring's “The Fertility Suite” screen-prints; with ea...
Offset
Keith Haring The Homecoming 1987 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring The Homecoming 1987: RARE folding announcement designed by Haring in 1987 to promote, "The American Run for the End of Aids". A rare, historic Keith Haring activist coll...
Lithograph, Offset
Vintage Keith Haring exhibition poster (Keith Haring San Francisco 1998)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
1990s Keith Haring exhibition poster: Original Exhibition poster for Keith Haring at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 08-September 08, 1998; an exhibit which featured a complete retrospective of Haring's work, from his childhood doodles and early New York subway drawings to large-scale paintings during his final years. Off-set lithograph on heavy wove paper. 24 x 36 inches. Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Bright, vibrant colors. Some minor signs of handling; otherwise very good overall. Contains trademark of Haring Estate on lower center edge. Further Background: Image featured in this poster is Haring's, "Drawing for Headstand 1988. De Young Museum's regarding Haring's symbolism here: "Human figures depicted upside-down are usually B-boys and B-girls, the dancers of hip-hop, doing the iconic move in which they spin on their head. Figures contorting in backbends or jumps are probably also depictions of break dancers." Haring’s work has long been a part of San Francisco’s visual culture. He created works for diverse venues in San Francisco during his lifetime, including murals for DV8, a club once located in the South of Market neighborhood, and a huge, multi-panel painting for the South of Market Childcare Center (also known as the Saint Patrick's Daycare Center). Haring’s outdoor sculpture Untitled (Three Dancing Figures) (1989), located at Third and Howard Streets, is a prominent feature of Moscone Convention Center, and his triptych altarpiece The Life of Christ (1990) is installed in the AIDS Chapel at Grace Cathedral...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Queens Museum New York 1990 (announcement/program)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Future Primeval: Rare original 1990 Keith Haring exhibition announcement published on occasion of the historic Haring Subway Drawing exhibition, ‘Future Primeval': Septe...
Offset
KEITH HARING Art Attack on AIDS, 1988 Vintage Pop Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The history between "Art Attack on AIDS" and Keith Haring is rooted in Haring's deep commitment to raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and using art as...
Screen
Keith Haring 'Future Primeval' 1990 Pop Art Vintage
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original exhibition poster created for Keith Haring’s landmark show Future Primeval – Drawings, Paintings, and Artifacts, presented at the Queens Museum and University Galleries in 1...
Screen
Galerie Watari Tokyo, Original Lithographic Poster, Framed, 1983
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Original offset lithographic poster printed in colors on Japanese pearlescent wove paper. Unsigned. From the edition of 1000. Published by On Sundays Publications, Tokyo, on the o...
Paper, Lithograph
Keith Haring 'Learning Through Art, The Guggenheim Museum 1990 Limited edition
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Keith Haring (After) American (1958–1990) 'Learning Through Art', The Guggenheim Museum Date: 1990 Lithograph Poster on Arches Paper, signed in the plate, numbered and dated in pe...
Lithograph
Haring, Future Primeval, 1990 (after)
By Keith Haring
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Keith Haring (1958-1990) (after) Title: Future Primeval Year: 1990 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Size: 37 x 21 inches Notes: Published and printed by Martin Lawrenc...
Offset
(After) Keith Haring. Galerie Watari, exhibition poster, 1983 Lithograph
By Keith Haring
Located in Draper, UT
1983 Japanese pearlescent paper 27 × 20 in 68.6 × 50.8 cm Edition of 1000 2 colors printed matter on Japanese Kirabiki Paper
Lithograph
