Name/Title
Gift Greeting: Kitchen GardenDescription
A five-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting plants and herbs related to a kitchen garden. Tools, vessels and implements of cast iron, wrought iron, copper, and wood populate the composition.
This is a Gift Greeting, Country Prints’ line of unmounted prints available in cardstock note folders with envelopes for gift giving or mailing; see images.
This print appears in the c.1955 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Print Gift Greetings”; see images.
This design was also available as a framed print; see images.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1956Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“wert by hand”, with red heart, lower left cornerMaterial
Textile Ink, Bleached LinenColors
Color
Turquoise, Yellow Ochre, Black, Brown, OrangeColor Notes
Copper is produced by overprinting orange and yellow ochre. On this print, the dark green is a single screening. See PKM Seconds folder for example with two-screen green.
