z do your thing

Artist Corita Kent (American, 1918 - 1986)

Printer Harry Hambly (Hambly Studios, Santa Clara, CA)

Titles

z from circus alphabet

Date1968

Mediumscreenprint

DimensionsSheet: 23 × 23 in. (58.4 × 58.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert Cugno and Robert Logan

CultureAmerican

Inscribed68-69-56

Portfoliocircus alphabet

Catalogue raisonnéCAC 68-56

Object numberPC2017.11.17

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionSlightly opaque orange Z printed on top of a black image on a bright pink background. The image is of a circus advertisement for Barnum's Gallery of Wonders at the Barnum's Museum, New York. Emerson quote "But do your thing and I shall know you" from "Self-Reliance" on the vertical ends of the image.

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