Corita Kent
Corita Kent (“Sister Corita”) was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1918. In 1936, when she was eighteen, she entered the Roman Catholic Order of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles. In 1941, she graduated from Immaculate Heart College in California, and starting in 1946, she ran the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College. In 1951 she received a master’s degree in art history from the University of Southern California. In 1968 she left the Order and moved to Back Bay in Boston to work full-time on her art.
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Artist on view in the Permanent Collection Gallery
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