i can handle it | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2008.152
People: Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts)
Title: i can handle it
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1966
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/328946

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Screen print

Dimensions

53.3 x 75.6 cm (21 x 29 3/4 in.)
frame (framed with 2008.153): 86.4 x 114.6 x 4.1 cm (34 x 45 1/8 x 1 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r.: Sister Mary Corita
(not assigned): Printed text reads: [FOR]GET IT / Do you think I can handle it

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Corita Art Center Cat. #66-26

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: 2008.152
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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. 118-119, cat. 27, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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2008.152: i can handle it