Name/Title
Print: Framed Country Notes, Series 335 (Country Life), Butter Churn (TK)Description
A print from the “Framed Country Notes” series based on Wert’s Country Print Notes notecards. This example is from the Country Life 335 notecard set and is matted with blue colored paper finished with printed borders in brown and red. The series is noted on a Spring 1958 Country Prints price list and may have been introduced that year.
The print is a six color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting a country woman using a butter churn. The woman is surrounded by tools of daily work: butter molds, a bread peel, wooden vessels, a bench and a copper jug.
This framed series varies from other framed Country Prints pieces in that the frame is essentially a box with the linen print and mat glued to the box bottom. The corners of the frame are box joined rather than mitered, and the back panel is a piece of wood that is integral to the frame, rather than the inset corrugated cardboard used in most Country Prints frames. A Country Prints story card printed in blue and red on teal colored cardstock is affixed to the back; see images.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1958Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
Print is unsigned. Back of frame bears an early Country Prints story card.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Print, approximateHeight
6 inWidth
4 inDimension Description
Studio frameHeight
7-1/8 inWidth
5-3/8 inDepth
1-1/4 inMaterial
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Cardstock, Wood, PaintColor
Brick Red, Yellow Ochre, Brown, Blue, Green, Black
