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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.157
People
Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts)
Title
(give the gang) the clue is in the signs
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1966
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/328951

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
50.8 × 76.2 cm (20 × 30 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Sister Mary Corita
  • (not assigned): Printed text reads: Give the gang [our best] / NOW[!] / The clue is in the "signs" which reveal themselves to the listening heart, and so reprove our unmortified tamperings. Such signs lead to further questions, in the nature of things. The road does not reach its end when an answer is near; it forks out in two or five or a hundred new directions. D. Berrigan

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Corita Art Center Cat. #66-32

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
2008.157
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Harry Metcalf, "Corita Kent: A Technical Study of a Group of Screen Prints" (Thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2013), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim
  • Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), p. 22, fig. 5; pp. 106-7, cat. 21, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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