The Blueprint Drawings is part of an extensive collection of seventeen works created over several weeks in 1980, and revisited in Haring’s final year, 1990. The Blueprint Drawings are notable for their innovative medium—used by Haring for the first time—and their fresh take on motifs commonly featured in his work. The scenes depicted in this series are among the most visually striking and intense in Haring’s body of work. Each scene in this large-scale print is arranged in a grid-like format reminiscent of a comic strip. While Haring had used a similar format in his Pop Shop Quads, the child-like strip layout here starkly contrasts with the grim and explicit subject matter. The Blueprint Drawings highlight Haring’s unique visual style that would see the artist become a mainstay of private collectors, auction houses, galleries and museums worldwide.