The Andy Warhol Foundation Keith Haring, Grace Jones and Nick Rhodes Photograph

One-of-a-kind black & white print shot by Andy Warhol
1986

Keith Haring (1958–1990): pioneer of the 1980s downtown art scene whose energetic, cartoon-like graphic style, inspired by the city’s street culture, is closely associated with 
1980s pop art. He first caught the public eye by tagging subways, and soon befriended Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, Madonna, and AW while orchestrating shows at the downtown club-cum-performance space Club 57. He cited AW as a major influence and paid homage to him with his “Andy Mouse” character—a fusion of AW and Mickey Mouse. He contracted HIV/AIDs and started raising awareness of the disease, producing some of his most powerful work. He died in 1990.

Grace Jones (b. 1948) is a Jamaican-born model-turned-singer, actress, and performance artist. The famously eccentric jones began modeling in the 1970s in Paris, where Yves Saint Laurent and Kenzo sought her out for runway shows, and where she roomed with Jerry Hall. She recorded three disco albums in the 1970s before transforming into an icon of the edgy downtown New York art and music scene. After her hit 1981 album Nightclubbing she went on to appear alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Destroyer in 1984, and then the 1985 James Bond thriller A View to a Kill. AW painted her portrait in 1986.

Image © 2024 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.