Name/Title
Print: Kitchen-Herbs 97-3 PairDescription
A pair of five-screen/six-color silkscreen prints depicting items from an early American kitchen illustrating two maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanac:
“A Fat Kitchen, A Lean Will”
This print depicts meats, breads, and herbs amongst cast iron pots, a copper kettle, a butter churn, a glass demijohn, a spice box with multiple drawers, and other kitchen tools.
“Much Virtue in Herbs, Little in Man”
This print depicts fresh herbs growing from a trough, a copper pot, and a cast iron kettle, amongst others, while dried herbs hang from nails above.
First produced in the late 1950’s, this pair of prints appears in the c.1960 brochure “Country Prints in Frames Designed by Robert Darr Wert”; see images.
The unframed print in image two is a Country Prints production sample retained as a print record.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 to chipboard, backed with cardboard and secured within Country Prints frames with staples.Inscription/Signature/Marks
“wert”, lower left corners, and “by hand”, lower right corners.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Print, exclusive of frameHeight
9 inWidth
7 inDimension Description
Frame, approximateHeight
11 inWidth
9 inDepth
1-3/4 inColors
Color
Pink, Green, Yellow Ochre, Blue, Brown, BlackColor Notes
Brown is produced overprinting pink and yellow ochre.
