Name/Title
Notecard, Country Prints Notes: Country Life 335Description
A set of six six-color silkscreened notecards depicting a Pennsylvania “Dutch” man and woman in eighteenth century dress involved in tasks of daily living on a farm. The images are silkscreened on bleached white linen and affixed to folded notecards with glue.
See individual notecard images for descriptions.
This set is Country Life Notes 335, a subset of Country Print Notes. It is listed on the Spring 1958 and January 1960 Country Prints price lists. It also appears in the c.1960 brochure “Mat Sets by Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints”, and was available in a wood box with a silkscreened lid.
This set was also produced as framed prints.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1956Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“robert darr wert’s COUNTRY PRINT NOTES hand printed on pure linen” on the back face of three cards and “wert COUNTRY NOTES by hand pure linen” on the back face of three cards. Also, “pat. applied for dec. 1956” on face of Country Prints Notes (under linen print).Dimensions
Dimension Description
Print on linenHeight
5-3/4 inDimension Description
Card closedHeight
6-1/4 inWidth
4-1/4 inDimension Description
Card openHeight
6-1/4 inWidth
8-1/4 inMaterial
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Cardstock, Ink, GlueColors
Color
Red, Green, Brown, Ochre, Blue, BlackColor Notes
“Spinning” omits green.
