Signed silkscreen (serigraph) print from the American artist and activist. "So Sof," 1969, featuring a Walt Whitman quotation from his "Song of Myself": "there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the universe." Titled and numbered "ed 200" lower left and signed "Corita" in pen at the lower right. 23 x 23 inches (58.4 x 58.4 cm). Small surface abrasion lower left, some blocks of toning, general toning throughout, else fine.

A fine example from the American artist and activist whose extraordinary oeuvre has been receiving new and much deserved attention. 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.