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KH00000051
Carmine Street Pool Mural
Carmine Street Mural
Verified
- Creation date
- 1987
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Mural paint on concrete handball court wall
- Dimensions
- H 548.6 × W 5181.6 cm
- Color
- White, blue and green water imagery
- Subject
- Under-the-water scenes for a public swimming pool
- Edition size
- Unique
- Provenance
- Rear of the handball wall at the Carmine Street Pool (Tony Dapolito Recreation Center / James J Walker Park), New York City; NYC Parks collection
- Description
- Permanent mural executed by Haring in August 1987 on the rear of a concrete handball wall facing the outdoor pool at the Carmine Street Pool in Greenwich Village, measuring 18 feet by 170 feet; restored by the Keith Haring Foundation ten years later and reported threatened by demolition in 2024.
- Notes
- NYC Parks record: fabricator/donor Keith Haring, cast August 1987.
Data quality note
Dimensions from Village Preservation (18 ft × 170 ft); length source also cites 150 ft