Skip to Main Content
Home>Collection>Kent, Corita

Corita Kent

American, 1918 - 1986

Kent, Sister Mary Corita; Kent, Frances Elizabeth

Related Content

  • Sort by:
  • Results layout:
Show  results per page

Biography

Corita Kent was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She joined the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1938 and taught in Los Angeles at the Immaculate Heart College.

Popularly known as "Sister Mary Corita," Kent's large compositions combine quotations, often from the Bible or modern poetry, with religious or secular images. During her career as an artist and teacher, Kent also designed greeting cards and book covers. She achieved fame in the early 1960s with her brightly colored silkscreen posters. Some of her work includes excerpts from the writings of Carl Jung, e.e. cummings, and Rainer Maria Rilke.

[This is an excerpt from the interactive companion program to the videodisc American Art from the National Gallery of Art. Produced by the Department of Education Resources, this teaching resource is one of the Gallery's free-loan educational programs.]

Works of Art

  • Filters:
  • Sort by:
  • Results layout:

Limit to works on view

Limit to works with online images

Limit to works of classification:

Limit to works of artist nationalities:

Limit to works belonging to editions:

Limit to works created between:

–

Limit to works containing styles:

Limit to works containing photographic processes:

Find works executed in:


Find works containing subject terms:


Find works with an alternate reference number (for example, Key Set number) containing:


Show  results per page
The image compare list is empty.