Name/Title
Print: Harvest-God 97-5Description
A pair of five-color silkscreen prints depicting Pennsylvania “Dutch” people in 18th century garb doing farm related work, supporting two maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin.
At left, a woman and young girl in long dresses gather wheat and flowers. Picked fruit sits within a footed cast iron pot on at the woman’s feet. A maxim appears within a topiary shrub, “A harvest of peace produced from a seed of contentment”. Note: this quote is also attributed as north American and Kashmiri proverbs depending on the source.
At right, a man and young boy carry armloads of firewood, an axe and a pile of split wood at their feet. Within a topiary tree is the maxim, “What is serving God tis doing good to man”.
First produced in the late 1950’s, this pair of prints is listed in the January 1960 Country Prints price list, and appears in the c.1960 brochure “Country Prints in Frames Designed by Robert Darr Wert”. Prints were produced in a choice of antique birch or flat black frames.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1958Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
Linen prints are dry mounted on chipboard, backed with a second layer of chipboard printed with the Country Prints story, and secured within Country Prints black painted pine frames with staples.Inscription/Signature/Marks
Face of prints: “wert”, lower left corners, and “by hand”, lower right corners.
Back of prints: Country Prints imprint.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Prints, exclusive of framesHeight
9 inWidth
7 inDimension Description
FramesHeight
9-3/4 inWidth
7-3/4 inDepth
1-5/8 inMaterial
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Cardboard, Wood, Paint, StaplesColor
Pink, Teal, Green, chartreuse, Black
