Name/Title
Runner: Stoneware 210Description
A Country Prints production sample retained as a print record.
A runner with a three-color silkscreen print on white linen depicting fourteen motifs found on salt glazed stoneware. The runner is bordered in a continuous scrolled line. Within the border is the text, “some collected designs from early handmade crocks and jugs of salt glazed stoneware.”
This print is listed on a c.1951 Country Prints packing slip, and appears in a photo in the Springfield Sunday Republican in January, 1952.
Left and right edges are hemmed. Top and bottom edges are selvedges.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1950Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“RDW” and “BY HAND” on stoneware jug, lower left corner.Material
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Country Prints tag
