Harvard Art Museums > 2008.137: the cry that will be heard 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"the cry that will be heard (Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita)) , 2008.137,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/315361. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2008.137 People Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts) Title the cry that will be heard Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1969 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/315361 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.: Corita inscription: l.l., in graphite: 68-69-62 (not assigned): Printed text reads: LIFE / THE NEGRO AND THE CITIES / The Cry That Will Be Heard / March 8 1968 / 35 ₵ / WHY NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR FELLOW MAN / GIVE A DAMN // Put your girl to sleep some time with rats instead of nursery rhymes with hunger and your other children by her side And wonder if you'll share your bed with something else that must be fed for fear may lie beside you or it may sleep down the hall and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man come and see how well despair is seasoned by the stiffling air see a ghetto in the good old sizzling summertime suppose as the streets were all on fire the flames like tempers leaping higher suppose you lived there all you life do you think that you would mind and it might begin to reach you why we give a damn about our fellow man and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man and it might begin to reach you why we give a damn. If you'd take the train with me uptown through the misery of ghetto streets in morning light there's always night. Take a window seat put down your times you can read between the lines just meet the faces that you meet beyond the window's pane and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man and it might begin to teach you how to give a damn about your fellow man. FOR (W.E.L.) (As recorded by Spanky & Our Gang/ Mercury) SCHARF State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Standard Reference Number Corita Art Center Cat. #69-62 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 2008.137 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 96 Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 282, 284, 288-9, cat. 80, 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
