Name/Title
Print: Harvest 97-5Description
A pair of five-color silkscreen prints on off-white linen depicting domestic scenes with written blessings.
At left, a Pennsylvania “Dutch” couple construct a farmhouse. The man stands within the house framing holding a brick in one hand while reaching toward the unfinished chimney. Below, a woman mixes mortar in a trough with a hoe. A house blessing reads, “Bless this house, each brick and rafter, may it be filled with peace and laughter”.
At right, a woman and young girl in long dresses gather wheat and flowers. Picked fruit sits within a footed cast iron pot on 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 and Kashmiri proverb depending on which website is sourced.
Textile prints are dry mounted to chipboard, backed with an additional sheet of chipboard printed with the Country Prints story, and secured within Country Prints natural wood frames with staples.
The single mounted print in image three is a Country Prints production sample retained by the company as a print record.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
House print: “wert by hand”, lower right corner.
Harvest print: “wert”, lower left corner, and “by hand”, lower right corner.Dimensions
Dimension Description
FramesHeight
10-1/2 inWidth
8-1/2 inDepth
1-3/4 inDimension Description
Print, exclusive of frameHeight
9 inWidth
7 inMaterial
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Cardboard, Wood, Clear Finish Coat, StaplesColor
Pink, Blue, Yellow, Green, Black
