a bird

Artist Corita Kent (American, 1918 - 1986)

Date1962

Mediumscreenprint

DimensionsSheet: 11 15/16 × 15 1/4 in. (30.3 × 38.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jeffrey Burns

CultureAmerican

Inscribed"a bird" BL in pen

Catalogue raisonnéCAC 62-01

Object numberPC2016.28.02

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionThe background has various shades of blue, green, brown, and purple paint strokes. TL there is a wine-colored circular shape with a mustard yellow bird flying downward on top of it. On the right side of the print in the middle of the page there is a mustard yellow half-circle shape with a quote from a poem written by Juan Ramon Jimenez (unattributed in work): Quote "a bird will be singing...and everything will be yellow and silent" from the poem "The sun will gild the leaves."

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