Placemat: Country Tin (TK)

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Country Tin (TK) placemat on yellow linen with fringed edges, with 1960’s product label.: Collection of Sara Leeper. Images: PKM
Country Tin (TK) placemat on yellow linen with fringed edges, with 1960’s product label.

Collection of Sara Leeper. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Placemat: Country Tin (TK)

Description

A Country Prints production sample retained as a print record. A placemat with a one-color silkscreen print on dyed yellow linen depicting almost sixty early American tin vessels. Initially developed as a napkin for the c.1954 placemat set Country Tin 121, this may have been reissued as a placemat in the early 1960’s (see attached product tag from that period).

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints

Date made

circa 1954

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Location

Gill MA.

Continent

North America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“wert”, lower left corner, and “by hand”, lower right corner.

Dimensions

Width

17 in

Depth

12 in

Material

Bleached/Dyed Linen, Textile Ink

Color

Black, Yellow