Name/Title
Tablecloth: Herbs 450, 52”x52”, Pink/GreenturalDescription
A Country Prints production sample retained as a print record.
A tablecloth with a two-color silkscreen print on white linen depicting numerous stylized herb plants supporting the lyric, “Keep your garden clean, let no one take your thyme.” This lyric is from a folk song with many titles sung by Jean Ritchie, an early folk song revivalist who won a Fulbright to study the link between American, Irish and English folk songs; see web links for biography and song lyrics.
This tablecloth is listed in the Spring 1958 Country Prints price list in two sizes (52” x 52”, 52” x 72”) and three colorways (pink/green on white, brown/black on tan, and a new blue/white colorway). It also appears in the c.1960 brochure “Mat Sets by Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints”. In the corresponding January 1960 price list, this pink/green colorway has been eliminated.
Matching placemats were also produced; see images.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1957Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“wert by hand”, opposite lower right corners.Material
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink
