Tile: Cultivation (TK) T-80

Object/Artifact

Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Cultivation (TK) 80.

Cropped from image below. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Tile: Cultivation (TK) T-80

Description

A tile with a silkscreened underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting a shock of wheat, a plow, harvest tools, and a guitar supporting the Daniel Webster quote, “CULTIVATION OF THE EARTH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT LABOR OF MAN, WHERE TILLAGE BEGINS, OTHER ARTS FOLLOW”. This tile appears in the c.1960 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints Tiles”; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1960

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, silkscreens, and underglaze colors produced by Country Prints in Gill, MA. Tile underglaze printing, clear overglaze, firing, and finishing produced by Ceramo Studio, NYC.

Dimensions

Height

1/4 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze, Cork, Oaktag Label Hanger