Tile: Pinks, Hens (TK)

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Pinks, Hens (TK).: PKM collection. Images: PKM, unless noted
Tile: Pinks, Hens (TK).

PKM collection. Images: PKM, unless noted

Name/Title

Tile: Pinks, Hens (TK)

Description

A five-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting five hens atop and around three sculpted topiary shrubs. The use of an additive off-white underglaze color to define plant details is unusual in Wert’s work. His tile designs needing white are usually cut to printed the white tile body. This is one of a set of four tiles, only three of which have been documented. This set was also produced as framed prints and unmounted Gift Greetings; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1956

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, screen production, and mixing of colored underglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of underglaze colors, clear glaze, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC. This example is printed on the thicker tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio prior to 1962. On tile back, to the left of the tile manufacturer’s name, Wheeling, is the number 56, which indicates the year the tile blank was made. This tile appears in an article about tiles in the art journal Design in 1957; see images.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Front: “wert”, lower right corner. Back: “56”, “WHEELING”, “2”, “REG”

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze

Color

Pink, Green, Brown, Off-White, Black