White Icons is a portfolio of five embossings made in 1990, the year Keith Haring died. It repeats the five motifs of the Icons portfolio, the Radiant Baby, the Barking Dog, the Angel, the Flying Devil and the Three-Eyed Monster, but removes the colour, so that each image exists only as a raised outline on white paper. It is a clear departure from the saturated palette he was known for.
White takes the icons back to where they began. Haring’s first subway drawings were made in white chalk on black advertising panels, and he described the result as “this chalk-white fragile thing” in the middle of the violence of the subway. Brad Gooch, author of Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring, says the drawings were “fragile and evanescent” because of the matte boards they were drawn on. The White Icons are the same motifs in a quieter register, in which light and shadow take the place of colour, and they are often read in terms of light and darkness, and life and death. They were published by Tony Shafrazi Editions in New York. For collectors, White Icons are Haring’s best-known symbols in their quietest form.
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Keith Haring White Icons Portfolio (Littmann PP. 172-173)
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