Harvard Art Museums > 2008.157: (give the gang) the clue is in the signs Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"(give the gang) the clue is in the signs (Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita)) , 2008.157,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/328951. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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of Screen Prints" (Thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2013), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh.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 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
