Harvard Art Museums > 2008.138: a passion for the possible Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"a passion for the possible (Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita)) , 2008.138,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/315360. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2008.138 People Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts) Title a passion for the possible Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1969 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/315360 Physical Descriptions Technique Screen print Dimensions image: 57.1 × 29.4 cm (22 1/2 × 11 9/16 in.) sheet: 58.6 × 30.3 cm (23 1/16 × 11 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.r., within image: Corita inscription: l.l., in graphite: 68-69-63 (not assigned): Printed text reads: Playboy: Are you hopeful that we will choose our future? William Sloane Coffin: It's possible, if not probable. If I can be theological for a moment, I think there's a great difference between being optimistic and being hopeful. I am not optimistic but I am hopeful. By this I mean that hope, as opposed to cynicism and despair, is the sole precondition for new and better experiences. Realism demands pessimism but hope demands that we take a dim view of the present because we hold a bright view of the future; and HOPE AROUSES AS NOTHING ELSE CAN AROUSE A PASSION FOR THE POSSIBLE. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Standard Reference Number Corita Art Center Cat. #69-63 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund Copyright © Courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 2008 Object Number 2008.138 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Julie Ault, Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita, Four Corners Books (London, 2006), p 77 Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 260, 262, 264-5, cat. 73, ill. (color) Exhibition History DISSENT!, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/11/2006 - 02/25/2007 Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/03/2015 - 01/03/2016; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, 02/13/2016 - 04/13/2016 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
