Tile: Yankee Doodles T-8

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Yankee Doodles T-8: PKM collection. Image: PKM
Tile: Yankee Doodles T-8

PKM collection. Image: PKM

Name/Title

Tile: Yankee Doodles T-8

Description

A four-screen/five-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting an early American bottle, a weathervane, and cooking implements composed as a modern collage. This tile was produced in at least two colorways. This c.1956 design is an update to the c.1955 Yankee Doodles T-8; see separate entry. This tile appears in the c.1956 brochure “Country Prints Tiles designed by Robert Darr Wert”. A matching placemat set was also produced; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1956

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, screen production, and mixing of colored underglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of underglaze colors, clear glaze, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC. This example is printed on the thicker tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio prior to 1962.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Front: “r. darr wert”, with heart, lower right corner. Back: partial Country Print Tiles label hanger.

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze, Oaktag Label Hanger, Cork

Colors

Color

Brick Red, Yellow Ochre, Blue, Black

Color Notes

Above are the four silkscreen colors. The following colors are produced by overprinting: copper is brick red and yellow ochre; green is blue and yellow ochre; brown is yellow ochre, blue and brick red.