Collection of Sara Leeper. Images: PKM, unless noted.
Name/Title
Gift Greeting: Pastel, Poor Richard’s, Fat Kitchen 331 (TK)
Description
A five-screen/six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting foods and early American cooking implements illustrated in support of the maxim from Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin, “A fat kitchen, a lean will”.
This is a Gift Greeting, Country Prints’ line of unmounted prints in cardstock note folders with envelopes for mailing or gift giving; see “Branding” for note folder examples. It was also available as a framed print; see images.
This Gift Greeting appears in the c.1960 brochure “Mat Sets by Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints”; see images.
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 1959
Time Period
20th Century
Place
Location
Gill MA.
Continent
North America
Inscription/Signature/Marks
“wert”, lower left corner, and “by hand”, lower right corner.
