Tile: Crewel 563

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Crewel 563.: PKM collection. Images: PKM, unless noted.
Tile: Crewel 563.

PKM collection. Images: PKM, unless noted.

Name/Title

Tile: Crewel 563

Description

A four-color silkscreen overglaze print on a white glazed tile blank depicting imagery from traditional crewel needlework. The composition is derived from elements within Country Prints’ matching towel/wallhanging which bears a design by Louise Chrimes from a crewel embroidery kit she developed for the Petersham Craft Center in Petersham New Hampshire c.1961. Country Prints produced the silkscreened patterns for Chrimes’ kits; see image below and “Towels/Wallhangings” Crewel 263 entry. The tile and matching towel/wallhanging were available singly or in matched gift sets; see images. This tile appears in the undated c.1962 and c.1966 brochures “Country Prints by Robert Darr Wert and Neighbors”; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1962

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

This tile is printed on the thinner tile body used by Coutnry Prints/Ceramo Studio from 1962 onward. Design, screen production, and mixing of colored overglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of overglaze colors, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Front: “wert”, lower right corner. Back: Country Print Tiles/Ceramo Studio imprint.

Dimensions

Height

1/4 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Overglaze Colors, Cork

Color

Blue, Red, Green, chartreuse