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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.207
People
Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), American (Fort Dodge, Iowa 1918 - 1986 Boston, Massachusetts)
Title
enriched bread
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1965
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340684

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
75.6 × 92.1 cm (29 3/4 × 36 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in black ink (ball point): Sister Mary Corita
  • inscription: ENRICHED BREAD / WONDER / Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works everyday negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. As a result, there shines forth fleetingly the ever threatened truth that each and every man, on the foundation of his own sufferings and joys, builds for all. Camus / Help build strong bodies 12 ways sTANDARD LARGE LOAF no preservatives added
  • inscription: On verso, l.l.: 65-2

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Corita Art Center, Los Angeles, CA, sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Corita Art Center Cat. #65-02

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
2012
Object Number
2012.207
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. 174-176, cat. 45, ill. (color)
  • Jennifer Quick, Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha, Art, and Design in the 1960s, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2022), pp. 77-78, fig. 56, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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