The Beginning of Miracles
1953
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint
Dimensions
image: 39.4 × 49.2 cm (15 1/2 × 19 3/8 in.) sheet: 40.5 × 50.4 cm (15 15/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.2837
About the Artist
Corita Kent
Corita Kent (1918–1986) was an American artist and educator whose vibrant serigraphs combined Pop Art aesthetics with social justice messages and spiritual themes, making her one of the most distinctive voices in American art of the 1960s and 1970s. Born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa, she entered the religious order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles at eighteen, taking th...