Object number2009.8.1

Apocalypse 1

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the portfolio Apocalypse

Date1988

Artist Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990)

Author William S. Burroughs (American, 1914 - 1997)

CultureAmerican

MediumScreenprint mounted on two-ply Museum Board with accompanying text screenprint on a polyvinylchloride sheet

EditionPrinter’s proof 1of 5 from an edition of 90 plus 20 artist's proofs, 5 hors commerce sets

DimensionsImage: 38 3/16 x 38 3/16 in. (97 x 97 cm)
Support: 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Michael Cornish, class of 1982

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, signed right edge in pencil [vertically]: K. Haring

InscribedOn recto, by artist, right edge in pencil [vertically]: PP 1/5 [signature] '88 [Haring's cipher of a circle intersected with a plus symbol]

MarkingsOn recto, Rupert Jansen Smith's blindstamp lower left corner: [curving linear form with two folds]

BibliographyHaring, Keith and Klaus Littmann. Keith Haring: Editions on Paper 1982-1990: The Complete Printed Works. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1993, pp. 98-109

Vassar Exhibitions

Apocalypse Sky: Art, AIDS, and Activism in New York City, 1982-1992

Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper

Exhibition HistoryRecent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 18 - March 30, 2013
DescriptionA mushroom cloud with a strip of red down the center rises above a crowd of abstracted figures. Images of the Mona Lisa with her eyes x'ed out and sperm with horns flank either side of the mushroom cloud.

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