Name/Title
Print: Patience Tree/Cherry Tree 916-7Description
A pair of four-color silkscreen prints on off-white linen, each depicting a fruiting tree illustrating a maxim.
Patience Tree: depicts a conventionalized apple tree bearing fruit, crowned with a pink outlined heart sprouting three leaves. Below is a maxim from Poor Richard’s Almanac, “Patience is a tree whose root is bitter but its fruit is very sweet”. The composition is finished with a green border.
Cherry Tree: depicts a conventionalized cherry tree bearing pink fruit. Birds pluck cherries above and below the tree. At the base of the composition is the Japanese proverb, “In the hum of the market there is money but under the cherry tree - rest”. The composition is finished with a green border.
These prints appear singly in the c.1955 brochure “Country Prints in Frames” and the Spring 1958 Country Prints price list at a smaller size (7”x14”) as Cherry Tree 714-1 and Patience Tree 714-2. They are listed in the January 1960 Country Prints price list in a choice of antique birch or flat black frames, and appear as a pair in the c.1960 brochure, “Country Prints in Frames Designed by Robert Darr Wert”, as Cherry Tree/Patience Tree 916-7, indicating the prints were reworked into a larger 9”x16” format as seen here; see images.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1960Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
Prints are dry mounted on chipboard, backed with a second sheet of chipboard, and secured within Country Prints black painted wood frames with staples.Inscription/Signature/Marks
On each print: “wert” in script with solid pink heart, lower left corner; “by hand” in print, lower right corner.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Prints, exclusive of frameHeight
16 inWidth
9 inDimension Description
FramesHeight
18 inWidth
11 inDepth
1-3/4 inDimension Notes
Dimensions given by ebay vendor.Material
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Cardboard, Wood, Paint, StaplesColor
Teal, Pink, chartreuse, Black
