Corita Kent used her striking colour palette to unite religious imagery with expressive abstract forms in her screenprints of this period. The rich, deep purples, reds and oranges combine in overlapping and translucent shapes, anchored by the frieze of stylized human figures along the bottom edge, who face the viewer straight on. Corita once said that she felt ‘at home with ... the loose forms and the simplicity’ of American abstract painting like Helen Frankenthaler’s. She would move away from this style by the mid-1960s, when her work began to prioritise messages of social justice and calls to action through graphic slogan prints.