Name/Title
Notecard, Christmas: Plowshares Christmas Greeting 929Description
A Country Prints sales sample retained as a print record.
A four-color silkscreen print on off-white linen glued within a dye cut Strathmore notecard in blue-gray. The print depicts an angel flying above a New England style farm on a winter’s night. The angel points upward toward the Christmas star with its left hand, and downward to the open barn doors with its right. Within the barn is a manger, with a halo hovering above and to the left. In the sky, the words “oh little Town” refer to the traditional Christmas carol, “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem”. The image removes the birth of Jesus from Bethlehem and places it in a traditional New England scene, making the Christmas story more relevant and familiar to a North American audience.
Signed AD or DA in the lower left corner (obscured by card frame), this composition is the work of an unidentified freelance artist working for Country Prints after Wert’s death in January 1966.
This Christmas Greeting is part of Country Prints’ Plowshares collection of mostly Christian based inspirational cards and wall hangings. It appears in the brochure “Country Prints by Robert Darr Wert and Neighbors”, c.1966; see images.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
AD or DARole
Freelance ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1966Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
AD or DA, lower left corner of print.
“PLOWSHARES hand printed on linen by robert darr wert and neighbors”, on notecard back.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Notecard closedHeight
6 inWidth
9 inDimension Description
Notecard OpenHeight
12 inWidth
9 inDimension Description
Dye Cut OpeningHeight
4-1/2 inWidth
7 inDimension Description
Linen PrintHeight
5-1/2 inWidth
8 inMaterial
Cardstock, Bleached Linen, Glue, Textile InkColor
Blue, Red, chartreuse, Black
