Vintage Corita Kent Signed Serigraph

Vintage signed serigraph titled "Pigeon’s Flying” by Sister Mary Corita Kent. The poem weaving it's way through the art in tones of olive green and ochre gold.

It is in excellent condition with the signature in the bottom right and the title in the bottom left. Framed under glass in vintage gilt wood with nubby linen mat. The mat shows some water marking at the bottom but we’ll leave it to the buyer to replace since it’s original to the piece 

20 x 18”

Sister Mary Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an artist and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Kent designed the 1985 United States Postal Service annual "love" stamp!

A contemporary of Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha, Corita Kent (aka Sister Mary Corita) created eye-popping screenprints and drawings that combined corporate logos with excerpts from some of the artist’s favorite writers, creating an intersection between religious euphoria and advertising hyperbole. A sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, Sister Mary Corita served as both an educator and an activist at the Immaculate Heart College, where she was head of the art department. In 1968, she moved to Boston to devote her life exclusively to making art. While her earliest pieces are religious, starting in the 1960s her work took a secular, activist turn, interspersing images from the civil rights movement and antiwar protests with politically charged slogans.