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KH00000060
We the Youth
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- Creation date
- 1987
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Acrylic mural paint on brick rowhouse wall (mural)
- Technique
- Collaborative community mural painting
- Subject
- Dancing figures commemorating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
- Producer
- Painted in collaboration with CityKids of New York and Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia
- Provenance
- Private homeowner; adopted by Mural Arts Philadelphia Restoration Program
- Description
- Two-story-high mural covering the west face of a private rowhouse at 2147 Ellsworth Street in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia, painted 1–3 September 1987 during a three-day workshop. It depicts dancing figures outlined in black and filled with blue, yellow, red and green; it is the only Haring collaborative public mural to remain intact at its original site. Painted to commemorate the bicentennial of the United States Constitution with fourteen high-school students and artists Clarence Wood, Gilberto Wilson and Jose Seabourne.
- Notes
- Restored 2000 (touch-up) and 2013 (full restoration, $30,000 from the Keith Haring Foundation, restoration artist Kim Alsbrooks).