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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.188
People
Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts)
Title
someday is now
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1964
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, California, Los Angeles
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340086

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Sister Mary Corita IHM
  • inscription: Printed quote reads: SAF[E] / WA[Y] / America's experience is that social concern itself is inevitable. Responsibility for one another is what we mean when we say we are one nation under God. U.S. Pavilion, World's Fair / I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. Martin Luther King

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Siri Gopal Singh, Los Angeles, CA], sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Corita Art Center Cat. #64-18

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
2012
Object Number
2012.188
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 246-247, cat. 67, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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