Name/Title
Placemat: Farmyard 120, RustDescription
This is a Country Prints production sample retained as a record of the company’s print work.
A placemat with a two-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting an overview of a farm, with images of a woman in eighteenth century dress flanked by tall potted plants, roosters, birds, a house, a silo with a weathervane, as well as scrolled lines and other marks in rows reminiscent of calico print fabrics. This design was offered in three colorways: aqua, rust, or chartreuse.
This design appears on a c.1951 Country Prints table linens packing slip, and is illustrated in a Country Prints feature in the Springfield Sunday Republican on January 20, 1952.
Edges are straight-stitched and fringed.
This design appears on a c.1951 Country Prints packing slip.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1951Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“w” in heart, lower left corner.Material
Textile Ink, Bleached LinenColor
Dark Red, Dark Chartreuse
