Gift Greeting: Early Cooking

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Gift Greeting: Early Cooking, in a third-party frame.: Image: H is for Home.com (hisforhome.com)
Gift Greeting: Early Cooking, in a third-party frame.

Image: H is for Home.com (hisforhome.com)

Name/Title

Gift Greeting: Early Cooking

Description

A six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting a well equipped early American kitchen hutch. Displayed on shelves within the hutch are items of cast iron, wooden ware, copper ware, crockery, painted tin and glass. At lower left a black kettle bears the title, “EARLY COOKING”. This is a Gift Greeting, Country Prints’ line of unmounted prints available in cardstock note folder with envelopes for mailing or gift giving; see “Branding” for note folder examples. This print appears in the c.1955 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Print Gift Greetings”; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints

Date made

circa 1955 - circa 1960

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Location

Gill MA.

Continent

North America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“wert by hand” in black, lower right corner; burnt orange outlined heart, lower right corner.

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Approximate

Height

7 in

Width

9 in

Material

Bleached Linen, Textile Ink

Color

Aqua, Green, Burnt Orange, Light Brown, Yellow Ochre, Black