Keith Haring

Safe Sex
1985

A bright yellow square graphic with bold red text at the top reading "Safe Sex" with a registered trademark symbol. Below the text is a red-bordered square featuring a simplistic black line drawing of two figures with red X's for their heads, connected by a dotted line at their groins, suggesting a message about sexual health. The background is adorned with black squiggly lines all around, and there is a small '85' in the bottom right corner, possibly indicating the year of creation.

A bright yellow square graphic with bold red text at the top reading "Safe Sex" with a registered trademark symbol. Below the text is a red-bordered square featuring a simplistic black line drawing of two figures with red X's for their heads, connected by a dotted line at their groins, suggesting a message about sexual health. The background is adorned with black squiggly lines all around, and there is a small '85' in the bottom right corner, possibly indicating the year of creation.

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Date
1985

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 60 × 60 1/16 × 1 1/4in. (152.4 × 152.6 × 3.2 cm)

Accession number
2024.117

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© Keith Haring Foundation

API
artworks/37778

Exhibitions

Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Feb 10–May 1, 2011

Keith Haring
6 works in the collection

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