Untitled 3 by Keith Haring is a lithograph print from 1982. It is the third of six prints from Haring’s first print series, published without a title. The works that make up this untitled series from 1982 are all quintessential Haring images. They contain many motifs and symbols that appear throughout Haring’s body of work. Mainly, the series contains plenty of the artist’s barking dog figures, which, in Haring’s catalog, tend to represent government misconduct and the oppressive use of power. Other common symbols in the series are his humanoid figures, UFOs, television sets, and imagery that invokes themes of domination and war.

Known for his socio-political advocacy, Haring’s hieroglyphic-inspired figures share strong messages and stories with his audience about the AIDS crisis, government, news, prejudice, and religion. Using dogs as authoritarian emblems throughout his work, Haring explores authoritarian institutions hidden in everyday life. “The fundamentalist Christians, all dogmatic ‘control religions,’ are evil. The original ideas are good. But they are so convoluted and changed that only a skeleton of good intentions is left… Most of the evil in the world is done in the name of good (religion, false prophets, bullshit artists, politicians, businessmen).” (From a journal entry by Keith Haring on March 28th, 1987.)

Untitled 3 displays a marked, gender-neutral figure surrounded by aggressively charged authoritative figures that spatially dominate the composition. The intense imagery is emboldened by the incorporation of the spotted pattern that dresses both the dogs and the cross, likening the differing images with the light suggestion they share a doctrinal relationship.