Notecard, Country Print Notes: Country Cooking Notes 334, Apple Butter (TK)
Description
A notecard with a five-screen/nine color silkscreen print on off-white linen affixed to a folded cardstock notecard. The composition depicts a woman in a long dress and apron making apple butter. She stirs the contents of a large copper pot suspended above a fire. Above is an apple and a slice of bread being spread with apple butter. At her feet is a keg of drinking cider and a handled cup next to a corked jug for fermenting cider into hard alcohol or vinegar.
The textile is framed by a dark ochre border printed on the notecard. On the back of the notecard is Wert’s logo topped with a rooster on a skimming spoon and the type, “robert darr wert’s COUNTRY PRINT NOTES hand printed on pure linen”. Two smaller spoons dangle from the handle of the skimming spoon. Within the bowls of the spoons are a “C” and and “R”, for “copyright and “registered trademark”.
This design is one of a set of six Country Cooking Notes from the Country Print Notes line. It is listed in the Spring 1958 Country Prints price list, and appeared in the c.1960 brochure “Mats Sets by Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints”. It was also produced as a framed print.
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr Wert
Role
Artist
Manufacturer
Country Prints
Date made
circa 1956
Time Period
20th Century
Place
Location
Gill MA.
Continent
North America
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Print is unmarked; notecard is imprinted with the Country Print Notes logo on the back face.
In pencil on back face, a handwritten notation may indicate the retail price and a letter code for the wholesale price. If this is correct, the retail price was .45 cents.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Notecard Closed
Height
6-1/4 in
Width
4-1/4 in
Dimension Notes
Card Open: 6 1/4” x 8 1/2”
Dimension Description
Linen Print
Height
5-1/2 in
Width
3-3/4 in
Material
Bleached Linen, Cardstock, Textile Ink, Glue
Colors
Color
Yellow Ochre, Brick Red, Blue, Brown, Black
Color Notes
Additional colors are achieved by overprinting: russet and yellow ochre make copper; yellow ochre, brown and russet make the brown apple butter on the slice of bread; brown and russet make the shadow on the apple; yellow ochre and blue make the green leaf on the apple.
