1968 Sister Mary Corita Kent Pop Art Print - Treasure Hidden in a Field Print

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This is an original 1968 print from the work of Sister Mary Corita Kent from United Church Press, an authentic … more This is an original 1968 print from the work of Sister Mary Corita Kent from United Church Press, an authentic offset vintage print!

Very hippie, inspirational and Iconic Pop Art.

It measures approximately 14" x 10" overall, has no tears or stains, and comes from a dry, smoke-free environment.This vintage print is not any kind of later reproduction, photocopy or reprint.

This piece is an abstract print in muted hues of blue, purple, pink and yellow.,

Sister Mary Corita Kent was a social justice artist.

Published by United Church Press in 1968.

Corita Kent was a pioneering, Los Angeles-based artist and designer. For over three decades, Corita, as she is commonly referred to, experimented in printmaking, producing a prodigious and groundbreaking body of work that combines faith, activism, and teaching with messages of acceptance and hope. Her vibrant, Pop-inspired prints from the 1960s pose philosophical questions about racism, war, poverty, and religion and remain iconic symbols of that period in American history.

A Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Corita taught at the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College from 1947 through 1968. At IHC, Corita developed her own version of Pop art, mixing bright, bold imagery with provocative texts pulled from a range of secular and religious sources, including street signs, scripture, poetry, philosophy, advertising, and pop song lyrics. She used printmaking as a populist medium to communicate with the world, and her avant-garde designs appeared widely as billboards, book jackets, illustrations, and posters. By the mid-1960s Corita and IHC’s art department had become legendary, frequently bringing such guests as John Cage, Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller, Saul Bass, and Alfred Hitchcock. Dubbed the “joyous revolutionary” by artist Ben Shahn, Corita lectured extensively, appeared on television and radio talk shows across the country, and on the cover of Newsweek in 1967.

As a teacher, Corita inspired her students to discover new ways of experiencing the world. She asked them to see with fresh eyes through the use of a "finder," an empty 35mm slide mount that students looked through to frame arresting compositions and images. Seeking out revelation in the everyday, students explored grocery stores, car dealerships, and the streets of Hollywood. As Corita’s friend, theologian Harvey Cox, noted, “Like a priest, a shaman, a magician, she could pass her hands over the commonest of the everyday, the superficial, the oh-so-ordinary, and make it a vehicle of the luminous, the only, and the hope filled.

Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), aka Sister Mary Corita Kent, was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an artist and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and seigraph, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Kent designed the 1985 United States Postal Service annual "love" stamp.


Bold colors and innovative text over imagery made her the Andy Warhol of the West Coast. A fascinating piece of history, Sister Corita was producing groundbreaking art during the tumult of the 1960s, and is now regarded as a major artist that was fiercely independent and hugely influential.

A fascinating piece of history, Corita Kent (1918 - 1986), was a prolific artist, educator, peace activist, and a former nun at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. Kent, inspired by the works of Andy Warhol, began using popular culture as raw material for her work in 1962. She used the process of silk-screening to create thousands of prints with beautifully worded text and quotes.



Poetic, timeless and deeply personal, Kent's work resonates strongly today, as a new generation discovers her genius.. less