Name/Title
Print: Friendly Kitchen 917-4Description
A six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting bottles, containers, cookware, cooking tools and herbs used in a well equipped early American kitchen.
Print is dry mounted to single ply chipboard, backed with corrugated board and mounted in a black painted Country Prints frame from the mid-1950’s.
This print appears in the c.1955 brochure “Country Prints in Frames”, and in a c.1955 price list.
A matching placemat set and table runner were also produced; see images.
This print was also used by other manufacturers for unauthorized/unlicensed textile yardage and home products like aprons and tablecloths.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1953Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“ROBERT DARR WERT” and “by hand”, with red outlined heart, lower right corner.Dimensions
Dimension Description
FrameHeight
9-3/4 inWidth
17-3/4 inDepth
1-5/8 inDimension Description
Print, exclusive of frameHeight
9 inWidth
17 inMaterial
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Chipboard, corrugated board, Wood, Paint, StaplesColor
Black, Green, Orange, Light Brown, Yellow Ochre, Brick Red
