2008.177: wet and wild
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.177
- People
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Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts)
- Title
- wet and wild
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1967
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/328971
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- 45.7 × 58.4 cm (18 × 23 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r.: Corita
- (not assigned): Printed text reads: WET & WILD / When he used this word "cup" he was talking about his cross... when he invited us to partake of his cup, he is not inviting us to take a little sip of grape juice, he is inviting us to participate in wall-breaking, in living and dying as a representative of god's shalom—reconciliation
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Corita Art Center Cat. #67-40
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
- 2008.177
- 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 65
- Susan Dackerman, ed., Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2015), pp. 188-189, cat. 51, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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