Name/Title
Gift Greeting: Pastel, Poor Richard’s, Home 331 (TK)Description
A six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting an 18th c. house building scene. In the foreground, a woman in a long dress and apron rocks a baby in a cradle as the baby reaches for a spinning wheel. In the middle ground, a man in breaches swings an adze downward to hew a beam. Beyond, a completed chimney with a kitchen hearth and ovens stands amidst the timber framing of a house. A tree, the raw material for house building, stands behind and beyond the man. This example was trimmed to fit a third party frame.
This is a Gift Greeting, Country Prints’ line of unmounted prints available in cardstock note folders with envelopes for mailing or gift giving; see “Branding” entries 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 by hand” in black, lower right corner.Material
Bleached Linen, Textile InkColor
Green, Pink, chartreuse, Beige, Black, Blue
