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The show, coinciding with his retrospective at Tate Liverpool, will be a collection of paintings, posters and prints by Keith Haring, as well as a selection or artefacts such as a doodled pair of trainers and an NYPD report on Haring's graffiti. The show will also feature the photography of Martha Cooper, who knew Haring, documenting his historic painting of the Bowery wall, NYC. 'ICON' is a portrait of Haring; his timeless imagery, message and character.

Born in Pennsylvania in 1958, Haring developed an early love for drawing, partly taught by his father and taking inspiration from popular culture around him. Despite a brief spell training to be a commercial graphic artist, Haring truly honed his skill upon moving to New York and becoming a core part of the alternative art community of the era. He was often found organising events at Club 57 and hanging out with such idols of the era as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Madonna.

He began to develop his ideas of the independent artist, pushing his own youthful impulses toward a singular kind of graphic expression based on the primacy of the line. His politics had a heavy influence on his work, and he became focused on spreading a message through the power of public art.

Upon discovering the disused black advertising panels in the subway stations of the city, Haring began to draw his images in white chalk. Between 1980 and 1985, Haring produced hundreds of these public drawings in rapid rhythmic lines, sometimes creating as many as forty 'subway drawings' in one day. This is where he developed his unique style, having to work quickly, he developed a language of symbols and repeated characters, many of which he continued to use throughout his career.
"I was learning, watching people's reactions and interactions with the drawings and with me and looking at it as a phenomenon. Having this incredible feedback from people, which is one of the main things that kept me going so long, was the participation of the people that were watching me and the kinds of comments and questions and observations that were coming from every range of person you could imagine, from little kids to old ladies to art historians."
In April 1986, Haring opened the 'Pop Shop' selling T Shirts, prints and posters. The shop received criticism from many in the art world, however Haring remained committed to his belief that art should be accessible to all; he considered the shop to be an extension of his work, and it received support from many of his contemporaries such as Warhol.

By this time, his work had caught the attention of art collectors, and through the 1980s his work was featured in hundreds of international exhibitions. He became incredibly sought after, collaborating with such iconic brands and people as Absolute Vodka and Yoko Ono.

In 1989, Haring was diagnosed with AIDS and set up the Keith Haring foundation, providing funding and imagery to AIDS organisations. His own work in the last years of his life was highly focused on his own illness, hoping to generate activism and awareness about AIDS.

Keith Haring died of AIDS related complications at the age of 31 on February 16, 1990. Since his death, Haring has been the subject of several international retrospectives. The work of Keith Haring can be seen today in the exhibitions and collections of major museums around the world.

His imagery and beliefs live on. He is truly an ICON.

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Keith Haring 'ICON' - Exhibition at Rhodes Contemporary Art in London

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The show, coinciding with his retrospective at Tate Liverpool, will be a collection of paintings, posters and prints by Keith Haring, as well as a selection or artefacts such as a doodled pair of trainers and an NYPD report on Haring's graffiti.

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Description

Pointed flint handaxe reduced from a nodule and bifacially modified. The edges are straight above the butt, converging to a slightly rounded tip.Small scalar ancient edge damage occurs on both edges but is heavier on the right side.The convex edges of the butt retain cortex. Plano-convex cross section. Patinated and stained orange-brown from its deposition in gravel.

Curator's comments

The Gray's Inn Lane handaxe is important in the history of British archaeology as it the first known record with a published illustration of such an implement. It was also important in the discovery of the length of human antiquity. By the time it was found in 1673, a number of shaped stone objects had been recognised as tools and weapons of ancient peoples replacing an older idea that such stones were natural 'ceraunia' formed by lightening striking the ground (Cook in Sloan 2003, pp.181-184) so Conyers statement that he had found a weapon of the Ancient Britons was not new but it is the first handaxe to be recorded and subsequently published with an illustration in Bagford's letter prefacing Leland's 'Collectanea' in 1715. This was the first ever published illustration of a handaxe. In this note Bagford offered the explanation that this weapon had been used by natives fighting off invading Romans in AD 43 when Emperor Claudius was known to have brought elephants to Britain with his army. Conyers had already rejected this explanation of his finds because they were recovered much deeper in the gravels than any other Roman finds he had found in London. He also noted that the gravels were deposited by a fast flowing river making boats necessary but fails to prove to himself that the Fleet had been navigable even in Roman times. The alternative proposition was that the elephant had drowned at the time of Noah's flood explaining the waterlain gravels but not the stone tools that, if dated so far back, would challenge biblical authority that after the Flood the earth had been peopled by the sons of Noah. Conyers may have left his notes unpublished because of the dilemma caused by the observed geological evidence of context and stratigraphy being contradictory to the written historcal authority of the Bible. Sir Hans Sloane acquired the handaxe and the elephant remains. His interest in the later became a subject of much research (Cook 2012) and his paper to the Royal Society on becoming its president in 1726 relates similar discoveries across Europe and Siberia and attributes them to a period of different climate before a flood and of much greater antiquity than the Roman period. His collecting of fossil and modern elephant remains, as well as the dissection of an Asian elephant in the garden of his home in Great Russell Street, built up comparable material essential for identifying such remains and developing taxonomy. Sloane did not discuss the age of the handaxe perhaps wary of the controversy it might cause. However, by 1797, geological evidence that the age of the earth must be greater than the 6000 years allowed by biblical history, enabled John Frere to suggest that the Hoxne handaxe found in Suffolk, might indicate a much greater length for human antiquity than understood from written history. In 1858, the vindication of Boucher de Perthes discoveries of handaxes with remains of animals now extinct or no longer living in Europe, in gravels of the river Somme in northern France, led British Museum curator Augustus Wollaston Franks to point out that the Gray's Inn Lane handaxe and elephant remains had been known since the 17th century and part of the museum collection since 1753. It was re-drawn and engraved as a full page illustrationat natural size in John Evans' important 1861 paper 'On the Occurrence of Flint Fmplements in Undisturbed Beds of Gravels, Sand and Clay' published in Archaeologia 38, 280-307, and subsequently reported in most late 19th commentaries on the length of human antiquity, establishing the historic significance of Conyers' find. The elephant remains have not survived except in Sloane's illustration of them in his Royal Society papers (Cook 2012). They included a 'tooth' (tusk) that Conyers used whale bone stays to support it as he lifted it from the gravels indicating that the ivory must have been badly decayed at the time of discovery. It is possible that it was discarded because of its poor condition either early in the 19th century when the natural history collections were extensively re-curated, or when that material was moved to South Kensington in 1884, but there is no documentation to confirm this.

Exhibition history

Exhibited: 2007 15 Sep-2 Dec, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 'Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007' 1977 8-25 Aug, Birmingham, University of Birmingham, INQUA Conference

Acquisition notes

Found 11 December 1673 by John Conyers, the handaxe passed from his collection to Dr Charlett, Master of Merton College, Oxford and then to the London antiquary John Kemp, better known for his interest in coins and classical artefacts. The handaxe is marked and recorded with a K indicating that it came from Kemp to Sloane but it is not listed in the catalogue of the posthumous sale of Kemp's collection in 1721 suggesting that Sloane acquired it prior to this, perhaps when Kemp died in 1717, and possibly through the agency of dealer John Bagford who had published the handaxe and associated elephant remains in 1715 when it was already in Kemp's collection. John Woodward acquired most of the fossils from Kemp's collection which perhaps suggests that Sloane, knowing the object and the elephant remains, may have made a particular effort to acquire them but no record of the transaction has been found. Described in A W Franks 19th century transcription of the catalogue of Sloane's antiquities as: 'No.246. A British Weapon found with elephant's tooth, opposite to Black Mary's, near Grayes (sic) Inn Lane - Conyers. It is a large black flint, shaped into the figure of a spear's point. K'

Department

Britain, Europe and Prehistory

Additional IDs

Previous owner/ex-collection number: K (Letter K in Sloane catalogue indicates that it came from John Kemp's collection)

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