Name/Title
Print: Tea Herbs 612-8Description
A four-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting herbs and implements for the storage and serving of herbal teas. Herbs illustrated: sweet woodruff, mint, English pennyroyal, and rosemary. Herbs in labeled containers: tansy, burnet, sage, angelica, lemon balm, bergamot, rose geranium, and costmary.
This print appears solo in the c.1955 brochure “Country Prints In Frames” as Tea Herbs 612-8, and as part of a set of three prints in the c.1960 brochure “Country Prints in Frames Designed by Robert Darr Wert” with a group item number of 612-7 (with Pot Herbs and Salad Herbs); see images.
This example was produced by Country Prints and published by the Artistic Picture Publishing Co., Inc., NYC., indicating Country Prints engaged an outside company to further distribute prints beyond their network of independent sales representatives.
A matching tile was also produced; see images.
This print is pictured in a c.1965 promotional postcard for Bromley & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, Country Prints’ New England representative to the wholesale gift trade.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1955Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
Front: “wert”, in lowercase script with orange outlined heart, lower right corner; “PUBLISHED BY ARTISTIC PICTURE PUB. CO. INC. N.Y.C.”, lower margin.
Back: “4.00” top left corner handwritten in pencil; “BOX 130 HERBS”, lower margin handwritten in ballpoint pen.Material
Linen, Textile Ink, ChipboardColor
Green, Light Brown, Black, Orange
