wide open
Corita Kent, wide open, 1964, color screenprint on Pellon, The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection, © Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, CA, 92.94.265
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- Title
wide open
- Artist
- Date
1964
- Medium
color screenprint on Pellon
- Edition
edition of 100
- Catalogue Raisonné
CAC 64-30
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
sheet: 28 5/8 in x 35 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
text transcription: OPEN // WIDE // [left:] IN THAT THE KING // OF GLORY MAY ENTER IN [right:] OUT THE EXITS FROM // POVERTY TO THE // CHILDREN OF THE POOR LBJ, printed, center
signature: Sister Mary Corita IHM, black ink, lower right
title: wide open, black ink, lower left
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
stencil print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection
- Accession Number
92.94.265
- Copyright
© Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, CA
- Terms
Kent’s hunger for reform and social justice are evident in this print, which combines the biblical with the political. "Open wide" is used in Psalm 24:9—"Open wide…that the King of Glory may enter in"—as well as in a speech given by President Lyndon B. Johnson, in which he exhorted the audience to "Open wide the exits from poverty to the children of the poor."
- Exhibitions
2016 Corita Kent: Spiritual Pop Portland Art Museum
