Corita Kent
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Corita Kent, born Frances Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa, also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986) was an artist and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.
At the age of eighteen Corita entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles. There she was a teacher and chairman of the art department. She left the order in 1968 and moved to Boston, where she devoted herself to making art. She died of cancer.
Corita created several hundred serigraph designs, for posters, book covers, and murals. Her work includes the 1985 Love Stamp and the 150-foot-high natural gas tank in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
[edit] Partial list of publications
- 1967 Footnotes and Headlines: A Play-Pray Book, Sister Corita
- 1969 city, uncity, poems by Gerald Huckaby, pages by Corita Kent
- 1970 Damn Everything but the Circus, Corita Kent
- 1992 Learning By Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit, Corita Kent (posthumously) and Jan Steward
- 2000 "Life Stories of Artist Corita Kent (1918–1986): Her Spirit, Her Art, the Woman Within" (Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Gonzaga University), Barbara Loste
- 2006 Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita, Julie Ault
[edit] External links
- Corita Art Center
- Controversy over whether the Boston gas tank painting contains the profile of Ho Chi Minh
- Publishers of new study of Corita's work
- Sister Corita, Weekend America on NPR, March 3, 2007. Includes a gallery with numerous photos of her and of her work.
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