Gift Greeting, Christmas: Twelve Days, Colonial, Twelfth Day (TK)

12th Day of the “Colonial” 12 Days series.: Collection of Sara Leeper. Images: PKM
12th Day of the “Colonial” 12 Days series.

Collection of Sara Leeper. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Gift Greeting, Christmas: Twelve Days, Colonial, Twelfth Day (TK)

Description

A six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting the twelfth day of Christmas from the traditional Christmas song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. The text of this print includes the complete final verse of the song. Border imagery represents the gifts received on the twelve days. A full set of the “Colonial” Twelve Days prints has not been documented. This is a Gift Greeting, Country Prints’ line of unmounted prints available in cardstock note folders with envelopes for mailing or gift giving; see “Branding” entries for folios. This example is a sales sample used by Country Prints.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints

Date made

circa 1960

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Location

Gill MA.

Continent

North America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“wert” in red script, lower left corner, and “by hand” in red print, lower right corner.

Dimensions

Height

9 in

Width

7 in

Material

Bleached Linen, Textile Ink

Color

Aqua, Brick Red, Green, Brown, Yellow Ochre, Black