Keith Haring’s iconic crawling infant with rays is called the Radiant Baby.
The symbol shows a simplified baby surrounded by short lines suggesting light, energy, or spiritual force. Haring used it as one of the central images in his visual vocabulary, and it became his most recognizable emblem.
Haring began attracting public attention in New York in the early 1980s through chalk drawings on unused black advertising panels in subway stations. He treated the subway as a public laboratory, developing bold, instantly readable figures that could communicate across language and class boundaries.
The Radiant Baby is sometimes confused with Haring’s other recurring motifs, especially the barking dog, dancing figures, and hearts. Those images are important parts of his work, but the crawling infant emitting rays is specifically the Radiant Baby. Haring also used it as a kind of signature or tag during his subway-drawing period.