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Keith Haring
Keith Haring DV8 San Francisco (set of 2 1980s Haring designed announcements)
1987

Name: Keith Haring DV8 San Francisco (set of 2 1980s Haring designed announcements)
Brand: Keith Haring
Price: 750 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Keith Haring DV8 1987: Set of 2 rare 1980's Keith Haring illustrated announcements; Keith Haring Club DV8 San Francisco c. 1987. Offset printed invitations c. 1987 Larger is approx. 4 x 5 inches. Smaller approx. 2 x 3 inches. Some soiling and spotting to reverse of green flyer, otherwise good overall vintage condition. Printed signatures from an edition of unknown. Literature: Keith Haring: Posters (Prestel publishing) Further Background: "Haring’s work has long been a part of San Francisco’s ocular 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 Child-care 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." (source: Huffington Post) Keith Haring was an American artist and social activist known for his illustrative depictions of figures and symbols. His white chalk drawings could often been found on the blank poster marquees in New York’s public spaces and subways. “I don't think art is propaganda,” he once stated. “It should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.” Born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, PA, he grew up in neighboring Kutztown, where he was inspired to draw from an early age by Walt Disney cartoons and his father who was an amateur cartoonist. After briefly studying commercial art in Pittsburgh, Haring came across a show of the works of Pierre Alechinksy and decided to pursue a career in fine art instead. He moved to New York in the late 1970s to attend the School of Visual Arts, and soon immersed himself in the city’s graffiti culture. By the mid-1980s, he had befriended fellow artists Andy Warhol, Kenny Scharf, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and collaborated with celebrities like the singer Grace Jones. Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1988, Haring’s prodigious career was brief, and he died of AIDS-related complications on February 16, 1990 at the age of 31. Before his death, Haring established the Keith Haring Foundation, a non-profit committed to raising awareness of the illness through art programing and community outreach. Throughout his career, Haring made his art widely available through the location of his murals, as well as through the Pop Shop—Haring's own storefront which he used to sell his memorabilia.The artist’s mural Crack is Wack (1986), can still be seen today on a retaining wall along FDR Drive in Manhattan. Haring’s works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Related categories Keith Haring posters. Vintage Keith Haring. Graffiti. Pop Art. Kenny Scharf. Dance Music. Gay Culture. Larry Levan.

Creator:

Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)

Creation Year:

1987

Dimensions:

Height: 4.1 in (10.42 cm)Width: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)

Medium:

Offset

Movement & Style:

Pop Art

Period:

1980-1989