Photo By Gail

Corita Kent (1918 – 1986), also known in the Catholic Church as Sister Mary Corita, incorporated a range of refereces into her silkscreen prints, spanning pop culture imagery and song lyrics, biblical allusions and literary conceits.

After seeing Andy Warhol’s Campbells Soup Cans in 1962, she was inspired to embrace  the language of Pop art, using bold, graphic designs to convey anti-war messages, such as the one depicted in
I Should Be Able to Love My Country and Still Love Justice (1968), which is a famous quote by author Albert Camus.

In the 1980s, Kent’s posters and ephemera were collected by PAD/D (Political Art Documentation/Distribution), a New York-based art activism group with a mission to create an archive of politically concerned art from around the world. The mateials are now a part of the MoMA Archives, Library and Research Collections.

Photographed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City