Name/Title
Towel, Wallhanging: Good Coffee (TK)Description
A four-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting the cooking tools and instructions for making good coffee. Copper kettles, an early coffee roaster and three types of coffee grinders are placed around rough instructions for making coffee. Below, a table is set for coffee service, with a painted tin coffee pot and four cups full of black coffee. The border names popular coffee drinks as well as countries known for coffee production.
A matching tile was also produced; see images. These items were available singly or in matched gift sets.
This towel/wallhanging appears on a c.1965 promotional postcard for Bromley & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, Country Prints’ New England wholesale representative to the gift trade.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
1963Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
A matching tile was also available; see images.Inscription/Signature/Marks
“wert by hand”, lower left corner; “© 1963 COUNTRY PRINTS”, lower right corner.Dimensions
Height
30-1/2 inWidth
16-1/2 inMaterial
Bleached Linen, Textile InkColors
Color
Red-Orange, Brick Red, Green, BlackColor Notes
Some shading is produced by overprinting two colors.
