The Beginning of Miracles: XIII
Corita Kent
1953
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screenprint separation in pink
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.2369
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...