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At the age of eighteen Corita entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters Of The Immaculate Heart Of Mary in Los Angeles. There she was a teacher and chairman of the art department. She left the order in 1968 and moved to Boston, where she devoted herself to making art. She died of cancer.

Corita created several hundred serigraph designs, for posters, book covers, and murals. Her work includes the 1985 Love Stamp and the 150-foot-high natural gas tank outside Boston.


PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

  • 1967 ''Footnotes and Headlines: A Play-Pray Book'', Sister Corita

  • 1969 ''city, uncity'', poems by Gerald Huckaby, pages by Corita Kent

  • 1970 ''Damn Everything but the Circus'', Corita Kent

  • 1992 ''Learning By Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit'', Corita Kent (posthumously) and Jan Steward



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