From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections (tame) to leave to love

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2008.156
People: Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts)
Title: (tame) to leave to love
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1966
Culture: American

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Screen print

Dimensions

45.72 x 76.2 cm (18 x 30 in.)
framed with 2008.155

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r.: Sister Mary Corita
(not assigned): Printed text reads: [TAME] IT'[S] [NOT] / Leaves leaving everything in green in haste to fall upon the past before my life can shudder and begin its leap over time and understand in spring there are not many days or any left to want-one, perhaps, must have to leave to love G Huckaby

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Corita Art Center Cat. #66-31

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Accession Year: 2008
Object Number: 2008.156
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
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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. 76-77, cat. 10, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

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

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