 Mary Corita Kent is primarily known as Sister Corita (I. H. M.) Kent
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"Why do you not think of Him?", serigraph, 222.25" x 34.25"
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Sister Mary Corita, once the nation's best-known nun, won fame as a serigraph artist. Her bright, colorful silk-screen prints were the rage of the 1960s. She designed the United States' first "Love" postage stamp.
Mary Corita Kent was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1918, then moved with her family to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1920. Two years later they moved to Los Angeles, where she grew up. She joined the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary there in 1938. She received her bachel (showing 500 of 9374 characters). |
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