Name/Title
Towel, Wallhanging: Kitchen Garden 214Description
A four-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting an implied colonial kitchen with herbs and tools for cooking. Herbs are portrayed as living plants and cuttings, planted and/or kept in water in glass bottles, kettles, jugs, pans and woodware. Herbs are rendered in silhouette and are identifiable, but also labeled for identification. A trailing vine frames three sides of the composition, one beginning in a glass bottle and the second in a footed cast iron pot.
Herbs and cooking tools are recurrent themes in Wert’s work, appearing on linens, Gift Greetings, tiles, and framed prints.
This print appears in the brochure “Country Prints by Robert Darr Wert and Neighbors”, c.1963; see images.
This print was produced with and without a copyright symbol, suggesting it was first produced in the 1950’s without a copyright symbol, then reintroduced in the 1960’s when Wert began applying the symbol to his work.
This towel/wallhanging appears on a c.1965 promotional postcard for Bromley & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, Country Prints’ New England wholesale representative to the gift trade.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1958 - circa 1962Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
Top edge is a rod pocket to accept a dowel for hanging, remaining three edges are hemmed.Inscription/Signature/Marks
“© wert COUNTRY PRINTS”, lower left; “by hand on pure Linen”, lower right.Dimensions
Height
29 inWidth
16-1/4 inMaterial
Textile Ink, Bleached LinenColors
Color
Brick Red, chartreuse, Green, BlackColor Notes
Overprinting of one or more colors produces several additional colors and shading.
