Tile: Country Life T-22

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Country Life T-22.: PKM collection. Images: PKM
Tile: Country Life T-22.

PKM collection. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Tile: Country Life T-22

Description

A four-screen/five-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting a Pennsylvania “Dutch” couple in eighteenth century dress framed by the branches of a fruiting cherry tree. This tile appears in the c.1955 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Print Tiles”, and the c.1960 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints Tiles”; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1954

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, screen production, and mixing of colored underglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of underglaze colors, clear glaze, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC. This tile is printed on the thicker tile base used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio before 1962.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Front: “wert” with heart, lower right corner. Back: Country Print Tiles label hanger.

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze, Oaktag Label Hanger, Cork

Colors

Color

Brick Red, Yellow, Teal, Dark Green, Flesh Tone

Color Notes

Dark green is the product of overprinting teal and yellow.