Tile: Yankee Doodles T-8, Color Variant

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Yankee Doodles (TK), color variant.: Image: Vino58, Poshmark.com, 4/2022
Tile: Yankee Doodles (TK), color variant.

Image: Vino58, Poshmark.com, 4/2022

Name/Title

Tile: Yankee Doodles T-8, Color Variant

Description

A four-screen/five-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting an early American bottle, a weathervane, and cooking implements composed as a modern collage. This tile is missing the brick red colored overprint seen in the second tile below, which affects the color of the coffee pot, the rooster weathervane and the small pot in the upper left corner. The omission also leaves out the wood grain on the handle of the mezzaluna chopper. This c.1956 design is an update to the c.1955 Yankee Doodles T-8; see separate entry. This tile appears in the c.1956 brochure “Country Prints Tiles designed by Robert Darr Wert”. A matching placemat set was also produced; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1956

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, screen production, and mixing of colored underglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of underglaze colors, clear glaze, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC. This example is printed on the thicker tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio prior to 1962.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“r. darr wert” with heart, lower right corner

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze

Color

Yellow Ochre, Blue, Black