2008.195: love your brother
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.195
- People
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Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts)
- Title
- love your brother
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1969
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/328989
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- 57.2 × 29.2 cm (22 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: Corita
- (not assigned): Printed text reads: The King is dead. Love your Brother. / Dr. King stares through the rain-spattered window of a police car after his arrest in Birmingham. / "are trampled over every day, don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion and understanding for those who hate us." / Dr. King's wife shared his triumph when he learned that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
- inscription: l.l., in graphite: 68-69-66
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Corita Art Center Cat. #69-66
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
- 2008.195
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), 282, 284-5, cat. 80, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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