Name/Title
Towel, Calendar: Kitchen Blessing U505, 1967Description
A four-color silkscreen print on natural linen depicting a woman in a country kitchen with tools and implements needed for cooking bordering a calendar for 1967. A kitchen blessing begins at the top of the composition and ends below the calendar, “Bless this kitchen to thy glory - and my family’s good. Help me to: Love this room as well as those it serves, To provide welcoming order, beauty and true nourishment: and to find the joy to create and the strength to be patient - Amen”.
The empty calendar days are filled with quirky phrases related to each month. For instance, February, “Longer days, colder nights”.
The artwork for the upper half of the calendar towel is adapted from the towel/wallhanging Good Coffee U250; see images.
This calendar towel appears in the brochure “1967 Country Print Calendar Towels”; see images
A matching tile and Plowshares Kitchen Pocket wallhanging were also produced; see images.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1965Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
c.1965 is the date this design was first produced; 1966 is the date this example was produced.
Top edge is a rod pocket to accept a dowel for hanging. Remaining edges are hemmed.Inscription/Signature/Marks
“© wert COUNTRY PRINTS”, lower left corner; “by hand on pure linen”, lower right corner.Material
Unbleached Linen, Textile InkColors
Color
Brick Red, Teal, chartreuse, BlackColor Notes
Additional colors are produced by overprinting two or more colors.
