This week's new American print from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection by Sister Mary Corita Kent dates from 1969, a turbulent time in the life of the artist nun, who had gone on a "permanent sabbatical" the previous year from the Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles to make art in Boston as Corita Kent. Imagery of the Sacred Heart resonated for Kent, appearing in a 1954 print in my collection dedicated to the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary in her early abstract-medieval style. The theme makes a poignant return 15 years later in this week's featured serigraph depicting sacred (broken) heads and hearts, created while Kent was making the transition from the religious life to commercial art. The weathered, wooden head of Jesus in Spanish Colonial Style reproduced here might have been one of the pieces Sister Mary Corita added to the Folk Art Collection of Immaculate Heart College during her years on the faculty. The heart shaped stone with light and dark sides could be one Corita Kent found and kept while out walking with a friend along a Cape Cod Beach in the months after she made her move out of the convent. This new serigraph joins others on the Sister Mary Corita Kent profile page in the Sacred Artists section. (John Kohan)