Tile: Sun (TK) T-54

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Sun (TK) T-54.: Cropped from image below. Images: PKM, unless noted.
Tile: Sun (TK) T-54.

Cropped from image below. Images: PKM, unless noted.

Name/Title

Tile: Sun (TK) T-54

Description

A tile with an underglaze silkscreen print on a round white tile blank depicting a modern interpretation of a smiling radiant sun. This tile appears in the c.1960 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints Tiles”; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1962 - circa 1965

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, screen production, and mixing of colored overglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of overglaze colors, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC. This example is printed on the thinner tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio from 1962 onward.

Dimensions

Height

1/4 in

Diameter

6 in