Artist: Keith Haring (1958 - 1990)
Nationality: American
Movement: Conceptual Art
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Philadelphia, Keith Haring studied at both the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh and the New York School of Visual Arts. Under the encouragement of Keith Sonnler and Joseph Kossuth, Haring began to experiment in Conceptualism. Even more of his inspiration came from comic strips, cartoons, and the graffiti that he saw in the New York streets. Haring spent sometime actually contributing to the graffiti, covering advertisements with chalk and markers. In the 1980’s, he expanded to commercial art, printing his primitive figures and forms on t-shirts, badges, posters, and murals.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Keith Haring - Subway Drawing 1980-81 chalk The Hyde Collection American
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Chuck Close - Keith 1970 acrylic on canvas Saint Louis Art Museum American
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Elizabeth Keith, Outside the Te-Sheng-Men, Peking, 1921
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Keith Boyle, Untitled, 20th century
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William Keith, California Ranch, 1908
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William Keith, The Glory of the Heavens, 1891
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Chuck Close , Working proof 1 for Keith, 1972
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Chuck Close , Keith (Trial Proof ), 1972
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Keith Achepohl, Holy Participants, 1959
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William Keith, A Broadside of Mount Tamalpais, 1870
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William Keith, Evening, 19th - 20th century
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William Keith, Landscape, late 19th century
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Keith Shaw Williams, Peace, 20th century
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Keith Jacobshagen, Into Denton, Near Dark, 1988
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William Keith, Santa Barbara Hills, 1882
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William Keith, Collis P. Huntington, late 19th century
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Elizabeth Keith, Bridge, Soochow, 19th - 20th century
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Elizabeth Keith, Chinese Actor, 19th - 20th century
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William Keith, River at Evening, late 19th century
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William Keith, Approaching Storm, late 19th century
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Chuck Close , Working proof 2 from test plate for Keith, 1972
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Chuck Close , Working proof 3 from test plate for Keith, 1972
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Chuck Close , Working proof 1 from test plate for Keith, 1972
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Chuck Close , Working proof 6 from test plate for Keith, 1972
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Chuck Close , Working proof 5 from test plate for Keith, 1972
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Chuck Close , Working proof 4 from test plate for Keith, 1972
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William Keith, Breaking of the Storm, 19th - 20th century
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Elizabeth Keith, The Peak, Hong Kong, 19th - 20th century
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William Keith, Hetch Hetchy Side Canyon, II, circa 1908
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William Keith, Hetch Hetchy Side Canyon, I, circa 1908
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Dawoud Bey - Nicole and Keith, Atlanta, April 26 1996 1996 dye diffusion print High Museum of Art American
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Keith Boyle, Untitled, pl. 1 in the portfolio, 10 West Coast Artists, 1967
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William Keith, California Oaks and Field, late 19th century
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Elizabeth Keith, Tea House Native City, Shanghai, 19th - 20th century
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William Keith, Distant View of Mount Tamalpais, late 19th century
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Keith Shackleton - Force Nine 1979 Oil on Canvas Arkansas Arts Center American
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George Cruikshank, End page vignette to Lord Keith on page 20 in the book Greenwich Hospital , A Series of Naval Sketches Descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War*s Man by an Old Sailor (London: James Robins and Co., 1826 & Dublin: Joseph Robins, Jun. and
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Bowl, 1700-1710 Made by Cornelius Kierstede (1675-1757)American; Made in Mid-Atlantic, New York, New York, AmericaSilver;
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Keith Sonnier - New Orleans Dyad I E 1989 aluminum, neon, mirr The Detroit Institute of Art American
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William Keith - Yosemite Valley 1875 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (25)
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Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: KEITH HARING
Unhesitating in his belief that art can be understood and enjoyed by all, Haring's work represents a celebration of life and humanity, and can be enjoyed by people of every age and f...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Keith Haring: Heaven and Hell
The theme of sexuality also repeatedly challenged him to create new images. Another ...
Wapping Project: Keith Haring: Ten Commandments
Keith Haring (1958-90) was pre-eminent among the young artists, performers, and musicians whose work responded to urban street culture of the 1980s. When he arrived in New York City at the age of 19 to enrol i...
Fondation Dina Vierny - Muse Maillol: Keith Haring: Made in France
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National Museum of Fine Arts: From Picasso to Keith Haring
The artworks, mostly donated by collectors and artists before and after the Revolution, includes a room dedicated to the US art from the Reagan era, which were donated in 1984 by 50 american artists. It contains among others, an outstanding piece ...
Bergen Art Museum: New York Expression: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, David Salle, George Condo, Donald Baechler
New York was still a roiling melting pot--white art school kids collided with the proto-hip hop funk generation of blacks, Latin music blared from bodegas with new rhythmic ideas tripping from the timbales; Europeans checked into town looking for ...
Octavi Galleri: Pleasant: Suspended Thoughts - Moments
Pleasant describes this exhibition as an art installation '/…/ constructed as a series of images that are manifested from personal thoughts. The paintings are an analysis of self, Though often introspective, they are, also, reflections fro...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: Once Upon A Time: Contemporary Art for Children's Books
Featuring original artwork created by popular contemporary artists Keith Haring, Fai...
Arte Communications: OPEN 2001: 4th International exhibition of Sculptures and Installations
At its preparation for the 4th edition, OPEN is having an outstanding success, due to previous editions with 65 participating artists from 41 countries. This year the subject will not only be about the interaction between art and the language of c...
Long Beach Museum of Art: The Artful Teapot: 20th-Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection
The teapots, created by modern and contemporary artists, such as Roy Lichtenstein, Michael Graves, Keith Haring, Cindy Sherman, Ralph Bacerra, Cindy Kolodziejski, Michael Lucero, Ron Nagle, Tony Marsh, Peter Shire and Adrian Saxe, represent some o...
De Appel: The World is Fine, We Ourselves Unfortunately Somewhat Less: Ritsaert ten Cate
With works by: Tiong Ang/Roy Villevoye, Erzebet Baerveldt, Francis Bacon, Jan Banning, Johannes Bosboom, Joost van den Broek, Ritsaert ten Cate, Merlijn Doomernik, Marlene Dumas, Albert Eckhout, Ger van Elk, Lucio Fontana, Dominique Ghesquière, Gi...
Cliff Lede Vineyards: Donald Sultan: A Survey of Work
“Cliff Lede Vineyards and the Napa Valley offer the perfect setting to showcase the contemporary art that I love,” says Cliff. “I became interested in art in my 20’s and slowly began collecting art. It’s a tremendous pleasure to be able to take my...
McKinney Avenue Contemporary: Jane Wilson: Land/Sea/Sky and Photographs by John Gruen
Jane Wilson's paintings Show extraordinary skies anchored by low, horizontal planes of land and ocean. Wilson's works convey an evocative power and subtle beauty. Drawing on sources as diverse as French Impressionism, Dutch landscape painting,...
Andy Warhol Museum: Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York
Organized by the Getty Museum, the Nadar/Warhol exhibition will open in Los Angeles at the Getty Center from July 20 through October 10, 1999. It will then travel to The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (November 6...
Tweed River Art Gallery: From Floor to Wall - Installations and Assemblages by John Dahlsen
During this process natural objects become smooth and weatherworn, bleached like the bones of long dead animals. Man-made objects retain their sharp, iridescent colours and hues; like beacons on a sun bleached surface, returned to a civilised shor...
Artlink, Inc.: Workshop: Photographing Your Artwork, Phoenix, January 20, 2001
David Moore, noted art documenter will demonstrate practical issues of making the best transparencies you can make and to develop digital asset management of your art via traditional and digital photographic technologies. He will show the effe...
Peabody Essex Museum: The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection
The Artful Teapot demonstrates how the teapot can be provocative, playful, and profound as well as conventional. Addressing aesthetic, social, and political issues, the exhibition examines the teapot's ability to be more than just a device to serv...
Bonnefanten Museum: The Vincent
The Province of Limburg and the city of Maastricht support the Award to commemorate the European Maastricht Treaty of 1992. The Award of 50.000 Euro has been installed to support the work of European artists in t...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Tiborocity: Design And Undesign by Tibor Kalman 1979 - 1999
Tiborocity features Kalman's ideas and projects in a setting designed by Kalman to evoke a mythical 'village' located in a non-industrial country. The village is divided into nine sites that ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Tiborocity: Design and UnDesign by Tibor Kalman, 1979-1999
Tiborocity will feature Kalmans ideas and projects in a setting designed by Kalman to evoke a mythical village located in a non-industrial country. The village is divided into nine sites that serve as metaphors for various themes that h...
J. Paul Getty Museum: Photographs by Nadar and Warhol
Gordon Baldwin and Judith Keller, Associate Curators in the Department of Photographs, organized the exhibition. Baldwin noted: Despite the many differences between 19th-century Paris and ...
Arte Communications: International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations OPEN2OO3 Art and the Cinematic Vision
The Chief Curator, in this edition, is the international critic Robert C. Morgan, afterwards the loss of the esteemed French Art Critic Pierre Restany, who gave his precious collaboration for the previous editions. As in the foregoing editions, Ch...
Guggenheim: Clemente
Born in Naples in 1952, Clemente moved to Rome in 1970 to study architecture. The '70s in Italy were marked by frequent student protests, massive labor strikes, outbreaks of urban terrorism, and sweepin...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

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