Name/Title
Placemat: Good Morning 101, Red, Napkin OnlyDescription
This is a Country Prints production sample retained as a print record.
A napkin with a two-color silkscreen print depicting a radiant sun and a rectangular field with sixty-four sketches of roosters.
This placemat set appears on the c.1951 Country Prints packing slip, and is described in a c.1955 Country Prints price list, “Gay roosters in the rising sun — 64 of them on the napkin! Textured natural oatmeal linen — Red, Green or Blue”.
Edges are straight-stitched and fringed.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1951Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
Date taken from description in the Manitowac WI Herald-Times, Rahr’s Gift Gossip, see Archive, Editorial: 1954.2.23.Inscription/Signature/Marks
Placemat: “w“ in heart, and “by hand”, lower left corner.
Napkin: “by hand” with heart, lower left corner.Material
Linen, Textile Ink, Country Prints tag
