{"data":{"id":"29776","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":29776,"topgoose_id":10977,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":29776,"title":"HA","display_artist_text":"Sister Corita Kent","display_date":"1966","accession_number":"2007.44","dimensions":"Sheet: 29 3/4 × 36 3/16 in. (75.6 × 91.9 cm)\r\nImage (irregular): 22 1/16 × 36 1/8 in. (56 × 91.8 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\u003eHA\u003c/em\u003e, 1966. Screenprint, sheet: 29 3/4 × 36 3/16 in. (75.6 × 91.9 cm)\r\nImage (irregular): 22 1/16 × 36 1/8 in. (56 × 91.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Print Committee 2007.44. © 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\u003eHa\u003c/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eWho Came Out of the Water\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 \u003ca name=\"OLE_LINK1\"\u003emanipulating the text to approximate how one sees an advertisement while walking or driving. \u003c/a\u003eKent 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 and 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.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Large bold black and red letters spelling \"the hay\" over abstract red shapes.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:38:45.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:34.500-05:00","images":[{"id":108307,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/29776/2007_44_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"10836","type":"artist"}]}}}}