Name/Title
Gift Greeting: Pastel, Poor Richard’s, God 331 (TK)Description
A six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting a man and boy in early American dress carrying armloads of firewood. An axe and split logs are at the man’s feet. Within a sculpted topiary shrub is the maxim from Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin, “What is serving God, ‘tis doing good to man”.
This is a Gift Greeting, Country Prints’ line of unmounted prints in cardstock note folder 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 InkColor
Yellow, Green, Pink, Blue, Tan, Black
