Name/Title
Gift Greeting: Pastel, Poor Richard’s, Peace 331 (TK)Description
A five-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting a woman and young girl in long dresses gathering wheat and flowers. Picked fruit sits within a footed cast iron pot at the woman’s feet. A quote from Poor Richard’s Almanac appears within a topiary shrub, “A harvest of peace produced from a seed of contentment”. Note: this quote is also attributed as a north American or Kashmiri proverb depending on which website is sourced.
This is a Gift Greeting, Country Prints’ line of unmounted prints in cardstock note folders with envelopes for gift giving or mailing. 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 InkColor
Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink, Black
