Tile: Calico Kitchen T-21, Red (color TK)

Object/Artifact

-

Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Calico Kitchen T-21 in red.: PKM collection. Images: PKM, unless noted.
Tile: Calico Kitchen T-21 in red.

PKM collection. Images: PKM, unless noted.

Name/Title

Tile: Calico Kitchen T-21, Red (color TK)

Description

A three-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting silhouettes of early-American kitchen implements superimposed with Wert’s interpretation of calico textile patterns. This tile was produced in at least two colorways, red and brown. This example is in red. This tile appears in the c.1955 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Print Tiles”; see images. A matching placemat set and tablecloth were also produced; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Ceramo Studio, New York, Country Prints

Date made

circa 1954

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Location

Gill MA.

Continent

North America

Notes

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

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“r. darr wert” in black script with r. in red heart, lower right corner.

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze, Cork

Color

Teal, Brick Red, Black