Name/Title
Towel, Wallhanging: A Few Herbs 212Description
A six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting herb plants, herb names, a woman at a cook stove, a wall mounted spice cabinet, and kitchen tools including a wooden salad bowl and salad servers.
This design has been documented in both signed and unsigned editions. This example is signed; see separate entry for unsigned edition.
This print was marketed for use as a kitchen towel, wallhanging, or table runner, and appears in the c.1954 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints Kitchen Hangings”; see images.
A c.1955 Country Prints price list describes this towel/runner, “Perhaps our best use of this interesting source material — always used as a hanging. In white with Greens, Brick Red, Mustard and Black.”
The price list also states, “Pure Linen Kitchen Runners and Towels, Nice enough to “Hang” or Frame — in fact we now offer any of these framed in a flat early black frame at $10.00.”Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1953Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaNotes
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.Inscription/Signature/Marks
“robert darr wert by hand”, preceded by a squared heart, lower right corner.Dimensions
Height
25-1/4 inWidth
17 inMaterial
Bleached Linen, Textile InkColor
Red, Black, Yellow Ochre, Brown, Blue-Gray, Light Green, Dark Green
