Keith Haring was a cutting-edge artist who emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture in the late-1970s to 1980s to become world-famous. Presented is "Radiating Baby," original artwork by Haring. The artist was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1958, lived in nearby Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and moved to New York City in the 1970s. As he studied art in NYC, he worked in restaurants to support himself, and he discovered that the local subways could become a "laboratory" for his artistic endeavors. Haring used black, blank advertising space in the subways as the perfect "canvas" for his art, and he usually worked in the subways with thick, white chalk. Haring was influenced by the writings of Abe Burroughs and the art of Andy Warhol, with whom he later collaborated. Haring was "discovered" in the early 1980s, and his fame grew. He was commissioned for at least 50 public artworks from 1982-89, and during this time his art appeared in over 100 separate individual and group exhibitions. The 1979 nuclear meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, reasonably close to the same area of Pennsylvania as his boyhood home, had a profound effect on him. The "Radiating Baby" is one of Haring's most iconic symbols. The actual, original artwork, marker on board, measures approx. 8.5x11.3", matted and framed to 16.2x18.8". Haring once stated that to him a baby represented "youth, inner purity, and goodness." In the offered artwork, the baby is surrounded by 20 marks of "radiation." Perhaps Haring is juxtaposing the goodness that a baby naturally radiates, with the horrifying effects, the rays of nuclear radiation, which could also emanate from an innocent baby. The actual, original artwork, marker on board, measures approx. 8.5x11.3", matted and framed to 16.2x18.8". Haring signed the artwork (as K. Haring) in neat, big, and bold black marker, and inscribed it with "89" as the date, as well as an inscribed added symbol (of a cross within a circle). Haring passed away on February 16, 1990, from AIDS-related complications. Near the end of his life, he established the Keith Haring Foundation to assist AIDS research. This original artwork is in NRMT condition, and it is of great importance as it hearkens to the artist's youth and his lifelong concern with the innocence of children. The offering comes with a PSA LOA.