Gift Greeting: Country Kitchen (TK)

Gift Greeting: Country Kitchen (TK), c.1955-60.: PKM collection. Images: PKM, unless noted.
Gift Greeting: Country Kitchen (TK), c.1955-60.

PKM collection. Images: PKM, unless noted.

Name/Title

Gift Greeting: Country Kitchen (TK)

Description

A five-screen/six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting an early American kitchen fireplace hung with a multitude of cast and wrought iron cooking tools. The scene includes a fireplace crane, a copper pot and copper tea kettle, a glass demijohn, a candle stand, a matchbox and a painted settle. This is a Gift Greeting, Country Prints’ line of unmounted prints in cardstock note folders with envelopes for mailing or gift giving; see “Branding” for folio example. This print was also available framed; 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”, lower right corner.

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Width

7 in

Material

Bleached Linen, Textile Ink

Colors

Color

Yellow Ochre, Gray, Black, Copper, Blue, Brick Red

Color Notes

Copper is produced by overprinting yellow ochre and brick red.