From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections but, there is only one thing that has power

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2008.166
People: Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts)
Title: but, there is only one thing that has power
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1967
Culture: American

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Screen print

Dimensions

58.4 x 41.6 cm (23 x 16 3/8 in.)
frame: 84.1 x 68.9 x 3.2 cm (33 1/8 x 27 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r.: Corita
(not assigned): Printed text reads: But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it. Alan Paton / "I love my children and I love my wife," my husband had once said quietly, "And I would die, and die gladly, if that would make a better life for them." Mrs. Medgar Evers

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Corita Art Center Cat. #67-23

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Accession Year: 2008
Object Number: 2008.166
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. 278-279, cat. 78, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/03/2015 - 01/03/2016

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