Print: Treen (Woodenware) 917-2

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Treen (Woodenware) 917-2 print in c.1951 painted Country Prints pine frame.: Image cropped from photo below. Images: Lynn Tomb, Gill Historical Commission, 4/2021.
Treen (Woodenware) 917-2 print in c.1951 painted Country Prints pine frame.

Image cropped from photo below. Images: Lynn Tomb, Gill Historical Commission, 4/2021.

Name/Title

Print: Treen (Woodenware) 917-2

Description

A two-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting twenty forms of treen, or early American woodenware. This print was produced in a blue painted pine frame, and was one of the first nine framed prints offered by Country Prints. This print appears in the book, “Blockprinting on Fabrics”, by Florence Harvey Petit, p.126, 1952; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints

Date made

circa 1951

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Location

Gill MA.

Continent

North America

Notes

Print is mounted to cardboard, backed with cardboard and secured within a Country Prints painted frame with staples.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Unsigned

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Width

17 in

Material

Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Cardboard, Wood, Paint, Staples

Color

Red, Brown