Name/Title
Placemat: Friendly Kitchen 124Description
A placemat set with a five or six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting items of cast iron, copper, painted tin, and glass found in a well equipped early American kitchen.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.
This set is described in a c.1955 Country Prints price list, “Wood, Glass, Iron, Tin and Herb motifs in Brick Red, Bottle Green, Black and Brown. Runner to match — see #216 — white linen.”
A matching framed print was also produced; see images.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1954Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
Date taken from description in the Manitowac WI Herald-Times, Rahr’s Gift Gossip, see Archive, Editorial: 1954.2.23.Inscription/Signature/Marks
“by hand” and “W” in red outlined heart, lower right corner.Material
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink
