2008.164: somebody had to break the rules
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.164
- People
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Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts)
- Title
- somebody had to break the rules
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1967
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/328958
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
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76.2 x 91.44 cm (30 x 36 in.)
frame: 94.3 x 109.5 x 3.8 cm (37 1/8 x 43 1/8 x 1 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: Corita
- (not assigned): Printed text reads: SERVIC[E] ENTRAN[CE] / somebody had to break the rules / The rose is a rose and was always a rose but the theory now goes that apple's a rose, and the pear is and so the plum, i suppose. The dear only knows what will next prove a rose. You of course are a rose. But were always a rose. Robert Frost
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Corita Art Center Cat. #67-12
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
- 2008.164
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Julie Ault, Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita, Four Corners Books (London, 2006), p 67
- Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 198-200, cat. 55, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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