Wallhanging, Plowshares: Christmas Bells 711

Christmas Bells 711 Plowshares wallhanging.: Collection of Sara Leeper. Image: PKM
Christmas Bells 711 Plowshares wallhanging.

Collection of Sara Leeper. Image: PKM

Name/Title

Wallhanging, Plowshares: Christmas Bells 711

Description

A Country Prints production sample retained as a print record. A Plowshares wallhanging with a four-color silkscreen print on white linen depicting ringing bells hung in multiple brick archways supporting the lyric, “and all the bells on earth shall ring on Christmas day in the morning”, from the English Christmas carol, “I Saw Three Ships”; see web link. This wallhanging appears in the brochure “Country Prints by Robert Darr Wert and Neighbors”, c.1966, see images. This design was developed and signed by an unidentified freelance artist for Country Prints after Wert’s death in January 1966.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unidentified Artist

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints

Date made

circa 1966

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Location

Gill MA.

Continent

North America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“AD” or “DA”, and “PLOWSHARES”, lower left, and “by hand all linen”, lower right.

Dimensions

Height

24 in

Width

8-1/2 in

Material

Textile Ink, Bleached Linen

Color

Red, Teal, Black, Dark Yellow Ochre