Corita Kent, born Frances Elizabeth Kent in 1918 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, was an American artist, designer and educator who died in 1986. She was self-taught in serigraphy, or screen printing, after obtaining a mail-order silk screening kit, and her prints fused pop-art visual style with Christian faith and social-justice messages during the 1960s and 1970s. Her best known works include the 1985 United States Postal Service Love stamp and the 1971 Rainbow Swash, a mural covering a 150-foot natural gas tank in Boston that is among the largest copyrighted artworks in the world. Long marginalized from the mainstream art world as both a Roman Catholic nun and a woman artist, she has since gained wide recognition for her contribution to pop art.
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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Corita (American designer, printmaker, and educator, 1918-1986)
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Key themes in her work included Christianity and social justice.
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In recent years, Corita has gained increased recognition for her role in the pop art movement.
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Wikidata Q5170723, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Corita (American designer, printmaker, and educator, 1918-1986)
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Corita (American designer, printmaker, and educator, 1918-1986)
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