{"data":{"id":"29775","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":29775,"topgoose_id":10976,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":29775,"title":"Who Came Out Of The Water","display_artist_text":"Sister Corita Kent","display_date":"1966","accession_number":"2007.43","dimensions":"Sheet: 36 3/16 × 29 3/4 in. (91.9 × 75.6 cm)\r\nImage (irregular): 36 × 22 1/2 in. (91.4 × 57.2 cm)","medium":"Screenprint","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Purchase with funds from the Print Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"Edition possibly 250","publication_info":"Printed and published by Sister Corita Kent; printed by Immaculate Heart College; published by Immaculate Heart Community","description":"\u003cp\u003eSister Corita Kent, \u003cem\u003eWho Came Out Of The Water\u003c/em\u003e, 1966. Screenprint, sheet: 36 3/16 × 29 3/4 in. (91.9 × 75.6 cm)\r\nImage (irregular): 36 × 22 1/2 in. (91.4 × 57.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Print Committee 2007.43. © 2019 Estate of Corita Kent/ Immaculate Heart Community/ Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. info@arsny.com\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eCorita Kent created this serigraph, \u003ci\u003eWho Came Out of the Water\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHa\u003c/i\u003e, (also in the Whitney’s collection), during her three-week break in August between semesters teaching art at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles.\u003ci\u003e \u003c/i\u003eBoth prints\u003ci\u003e \u003c/i\u003eshare the primary layer, consisting of twisted letters and the upside-down word “LIFE,” from \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c/i\u003e magazine.Kent first used words in her prints in 1955, and subsequently introduced advertising slogans and consumer package motifs in the early 1960s. In 1966, she began manipulating the text to approximate how one sees an advertisement while walking or driving. Kent relied upon what she called a “‘finder,’ a ‘looking tool’ that “helps take things out of context,” such as a camera or an empty slide frame. To create works such as this one, she photographed advertisements then wrinkled, ripped, cropped, and re-photographed her photographic prints. She then isolated distorted type, from which she made stencils to create single printed layers, resulting in an exuberant field of text, color, and reference. The title of this piece was most likely taken from the 1966 Doris Day film \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Bottom Boat\u003c/i\u003e, for which some of the promotional materials included the by-line “The Spy Who Came Out of the Water.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Bold poster with black and red text asking who came out of the water.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:38:45.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:34.494-05:00","images":[{"id":108306,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/29775/2007_43_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"10836","type":"artist"}]}}}}