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A Child Said, What is the Grass
Artist
Sister Corita Kent
(American, 1918-1986)
Date1963
Mediumscreenprint
Dimensionsimage flush: 11 5/8 × 16 1/8 in. (29.5 × 41 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).Label TextThroughout most of the 1960s, Corita Kent—also known as Sister Mary Corita—was a nun, art professor at Immaculate Heart College, and anti-war activist. Kent worked almost exclusively in the print medium, as a screenprinter. Her most widely distributed work was a rainbow print reproduced on the 22¢ Love stamp, a year before her death.
Kent’s imagery, ideas, and phrases express her spirituality and appreciation of our world. This work quotes a poem by Walt Whitman, which celebrates the cycle of life and death, while affirming belief in an afterlife.
