Name/Title
Placemat: Craft Horizons, Mosaic 108, GreenDescription
A Country Prints production sample retained as a print record.
This placemat is part of a short-lived c.1959 collection titled “Craft Horizons”, a decidedly modern departure from Wert’s typical Americana themes.
A placemat with a three-color silkscreen print on loose-weave natural linen depicting four rows of twenty-one squares. The squares appear as solid colors, some with dots or squiggles, and others split in geometric configurations of two and three volumes.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1959Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“wert by hand”, lower left corner.Material
Unbleached Linen, Textile Ink
