Vintage Mid 20th C. Abstract Lithograph-Sister Mary Corita Kent-"Benedictus"

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This is an original vintage 1968 lithograph (offset) from the work of Sister Mary Corita Kent (1918-1986 MA,CA,IA) from United … more This is an original vintage 1968 lithograph (offset) from the work of Sister Mary Corita Kent (1918-1986 MA,CA,IA) from United Church Press. The portfolio contains 34 lithographs and is titled "Sister Corita". This listing is for one of those lithographs titled "Earth As A Sign". Printed on substantial stock on one side only. Dimensions: 10" x 14". Very good condition.
This vintage print is not any kind of later reproduction, photocopy or reprint.

Sister Mary Corita Kent was a social justice artist.

Published by United Church Press in 1968.

Corita Kent 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.

Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), aka Sister Mary Corita Kent, was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an artist and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and seigraph, 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. Kent designed the 1985 United States Postal Service annual "love"

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