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Keith Haring

Keith Haring (1958 - 1990) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania.  Keith Haring is known for Pop-modern graffiti, figure and genre painting.

©1997-2009 The Keith Haring Foundation

Born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Keith Haring became known for graffiti art and cartoon art and became a leading figure in the New York contemporary art world of the second half of the 20th century.

He was raised in Kutztown and then after high school, moved to Pittsburgh and began to study commercial art.  In 1978, he moved to New York City and studied at the School of Visual Arts where he and artist Kenny Scharf became companions.

Haring began to experiment with graffiti, painting first on subway walls.  He became known for his complex, pandemonic, jigsaw -puzzle like paintings, intended to be iconography of American life.  Usually he would begin by making the border around the work and then would go inside the space.  He said "the whole painting is the cartoon of a cartoon."

In 1982, he had his first exhibition, which was held at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York.  Whitney Museum curators organized a major retrospective   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 20357 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 5 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 12 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Keith Haring as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Keith Haring in 2 of its research Essays. Keith Haring has 74 artist signature examples available in our database.

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