I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Corita Kent (aka Sister Mary Corita)
Contemporary Art
From 1936 to 1968, Corita Kent was a nun, educator, and administrator for the Roman Catholic order of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles. Considered by others in her order to be a “modern nun,” Kent demonstrated her commitment to populism and social consciousness by using a medium—screenprinting—that ensured that her messages were widely accessible. Much of her work juxtaposes the sacred and the secular, for instance combining Beatles lyrics and anti–Vietnam War sentiment with references to spirituality and prayer.
MEDIUM
Screenprint (Serigraph)
DATES
1965
DIMENSIONS
14.375 x 35 in. (36.5 x 88.9 cm.) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Graphite, right side bottom, recto
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
85.187.11
CREDIT LINE
Gift of IBM Gallery of Science and Art
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Quote text: Smooth, soft, worn, and wrinkled hand s m o o L a mano lisa, blanda, usada y arrugada la main lisse, tendre, usee, et ridee donnez-moi...deme su mano pare que nos juntemos I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Suzan Entz, Lennon & McCartney
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Corita Kent (aka Sister Mary Corita) (American, 1918–1986). I Wanna Hold Your Hand, 1965. Screenprint (Serigraph), 14.375 x 35 in. (36.5 x 88.9 cm.). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of IBM Gallery of Science and Art, 85.187.11. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.85.187.11_Corita_Art_Center_Arthur_Evans_photo_65-22.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.85.187.11_Corita_Art_Center_Arthur_Evans_photo_65-22.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2016
"CUR" at the beginning of an image file name means that the image was created by a curatorial staff member. These study images may be digital point-and-shoot photographs, when we don\'t yet have high-quality studio photography, or they may be scans of older negatives, slides, or photographic prints, providing historical documentation of the object.
RIGHTS STATEMENT
© Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, CA
The Brooklyn Museum holds a non-exclusive license to reproduce images of this work of art from the rights holder named here.
The Museum does not warrant that the use of this work will not infringe on the rights of third parties. It is your responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions before copying, transmitting, or making other use of protected items beyond that allowed by "fair use," as such term is understood under the United States Copyright Act.
For further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch.
For more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright.
If you have any information regarding this work and rights to it, please contact copyright@brooklynmuseum.org.
If you wish to contact the rights holder for this work, please email copyright@brooklynmuseum.org and we will assist if we can.
RECORD COMPLETENESS
Not every record you will find here is complete. More information is available for some works than for others, and some entries have been updated more recently. Records are frequently reviewed and revised, and we welcome any additional information you might have.
