Name/Title
Gift Greeting: Pastel, Poor Richard’s, Fat Kitchen 331 (TK)Description
A five-screen/six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting foods and early American cooking implements illustrated in support of the maxim from Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin, “A fat kitchen, a lean will”.
This is a Gift Greeting, Country Prints’ line of unmounted prints in cardstock note folders with envelopes for mailing or gift giving; see “Branding” for note folder examples. It was also available as a framed print; see images.
This Gift Greeting appears in the c.1960 brochure “Mat Sets by Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints”; see images.
This example is a sales sample used by Country Prints.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1959Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“wert”, lower left corner, and “by hand”, lower right corner.Material
Bleached Linen, Textile InkColors
Color
Pink, Green, Blue, Tan, Black, CopperColor Notes
Copper is produced by overprinting pink and tan.
