Name/Title
Towel, Wallhanging: Freedom Acres 276Description
NOTE: TEMP PHOTO.
A five-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting the main farm building and wild fruits of Freedom Acres Farm and their mail order preserves business “A Taste of the Wild”.
Freedom Acres Farm was founded by Kay White and Donna Niles, c.1948. Both were veterans of the WWII Womens’ Army Corps (WACs). Their business was a major tourist draw in the small town of Wilmot Flat, NH, bringing as many as 45,000 visitors a year. Their mail order business, A Taste of the Wild, was founded on family recipes for preserves and ran for forty years, employing many of their neighbors; see web link for a history and video of Freedom Acres Farm.
This is one of over sixty designs sold by Country Prints to Stevens Linen Associates of Dudley, Massachusetts, in January 1969. From that point onward, the designs were produced by Stevens with all reference to Robert Darr Wert and Country Prints removed. Many of these designs continued to be produced by Stevens throughout the 1970’s and some into the 1980’s.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1960Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
Top edge is a rod pocket to accept a dowel for hanging; lower edge is hemmed; sides are selvedges.Inscription/Signature/Marks
“wert by hand”, lower left corner; “pure linen”, lower right corner; “FREEDOM ACRES FARM WILMOT FLAT NEW HAMPSHIRE”, across lower margin.Dimensions
Dimension Description
ApproximateHeight
30 inWidth
17 inMaterial
Textile Ink, Bleached LinenColor
Dark Green, Umber, Red, Blue, Black
