luke 2.14, 51

Artist Corita Kent (American, 1918 - 1986)

Date1963

MediumScreenprint

DimensionsImage: 21 3/4 × 28 7/8 in. (55.2 × 73.3 cm) Sheet: 28 5/8 × 36 in. (72.7 × 91.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Janie Hoffner

CultureAmerican

Inscribedluke 2.14 ("4" looks like a "9"), 51; Sister Mary Corita IHM

Catalogue raisonnéCAC 63-39

Object numberPC2019.02.04

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionThe words "GO SLO" decorate the top right of the image surrounded by red splotches of color, one forming a heart shape just below. In the upper left, a black line that resembles a sideways letter "s" is layered on top of a yellow background.
Interpretations Pop Art, Politics, and Poetry Corita’s prevailing interest in popular culture connects her to the work of other Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenberg, James Rosenquist, and Ed Ruscha. She was familiar with Warhol’s work and visited his iconic 1962 Ferus Gallery exhibition, the same year she began referencing commercial products in works such as wonderbread and luke 2.14, 51. Corita’s message was, however, more complex and affirmative. Her prints contain additional text, handwritten in her cursive scrawl, quoting extended passages from poets, philosophers, and contemporaries including e.e. cummings, Albert Camus, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Daniel Berrigan. -Erin Maynes, Hoehn Curatorial Fellow for Prints, 2014-17

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