Name/Title
Towel, Wallhanging: Frontier Cooking 222Description
A five-screen/multiple color silkscreen print on natural linen depicting more than thirty-five tools and furnishings necessary to a well equipped early American kitchen. Items illustrated include metalware, woodware, painted tin, glass and painted pine. All are recurrent themes in Wert’s work.
This print was marketed for use as a kitchen towel, wallhanging, or table runner, and appears in the c.1953 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints Kitchen Hangings”.
A variant of this design was produced in the early 1960’s, retitled “Antique Kitchen U265”; see images.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1953Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.Inscription/Signature/Marks
“ROBERT DARR WERT by hand”, with black heart outline above “hand”, lower right corner.Material
Unbleached Linen, Textile InkColors
Color
Brick Red, Dark Green, Yellow Ochre, Brown, BlackColor Notes
Overprinting achieves additional colors and shading.
