1960's Sister Mary Corita Kent "A Man You Can Lean On" Pop Art Print

Description

Marked
Copyright 1968
United Church Press

Titled
a man you can lean on


This is an original 1968 print from … more Marked
Copyright 1968
United Church Press

Titled
a man you can lean on


This is an original 1968 print from the work of Sister Mary Corita Kent from United Church Press, an authentic offset vintage print! It is bright yellow and orange and has the words "A Man You Can Lean On". Very hippie, inspirational and Iconic Pop Art.

It measures approximately 14" x 10" overall, has no tears or stains, comes from a dry, smoke-free environment, and is strictly graded. Near mint condition.

Sister Mary Corita Kent was a social justice artist.

Published by United Church Press in 1968.

Corita Kent (1918-1986) was a pioneering, Los Angeles-based artist and designer. For over three decades, Corita, as she is commonly referred to, experimented in printmaking, producing a prodigious and groundbreaking body of work that combines faith, activism, and teaching with messages of acceptance and hope. Her vibrant, Pop-inspired prints from the 1960s pose philosophical questions about racism, war, poverty, and religion and remain iconic symbols of that period in American history.

A Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Corita taught at the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College from 1947 through 1968. At IHC, Corita developed her own version of Pop art, mixing bright, bold imagery with provocative texts pulled from a range of secular and religious sources, including street signs, scripture, poetry, philosophy, advertising, and pop song lyrics. She used printmaking as a populist medium to communicate with the world, and her avant-garde designs appeared widely as billboards, book jackets, illustrations, and posters. By the mid-1960s Corita and IHC’s art department had become legendary, frequently bringing such guests as John Cage, Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller, Saul Bass, and Alfred Hitchcock. Dubbed the “joyous revolutionary” by artist Ben Shahn, Corita lectured extensively, appeared on television and radio talk shows across the country, and on the cover of Newsweek in 1967.

As a teacher, Corita inspired her students to discover new ways of experiencing the world. She asked them to see with fresh eyes through the use of a "finder," an empty 35mm slide mount that students looked through to frame arresting compositions and images. Seeking out revelation in the everyday, students explored grocery stores, car dealerships, and the streets of Hollywood. As Corita’s friend, theologian Harvey Cox, noted, “Like a priest, a shaman, a magician, she could pass her hands over the commonest of the everyday, the superficial, the oh-so-ordinary, and make it a vehicle of the luminous, the only, and the hope filled. less

DIMENSIONS
14ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 10ʺH less