Tile: Poor Richard’s, Houses (TK) T-36

Object/Artifact

Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Houses (TK) T-36.

PKM collection. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Tile: Poor Richard’s, Houses (TK) T-36

Description

A five-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting a man timber framing a house and a woman baking bread in the finished bread oven while watching over a baby in a cradle. The illustration supports the maxim from Poor Richard’s Almanac, “Men make houses but women make home(s)” (the word ‘home’ is missing the ‘s’ at the end). This tile appears in the brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints Tiles”, c.1960; see images. This is one of a series of at least fourteen tiles featuring maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanac.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Ceramo Studio, New York, Country Prints

Date made

circa 1959

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, screen production, and mixing of colored underglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of underglaze colors, clear glaze, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studios, NYC. This example is printed on the thicker tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio prior to 1962.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Front: “wert by hand”, lower left corner. Back: Country Print Tiles label hanger.

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

6 in

Length

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze, Oaktag Label Hanger, Cork

Color

Yellow, Red, Brown, Teal, Black