Collection of Sara Leeper. Images: PKM, unless noted.
Name/Title
Placemat: Buttermold 117, c.1949, Two-Color, Chartreuse & Blue
Description
A two-color silkscreen print on natural linen depicting early American carved wood buttermolds and tools used to make butter set within a design-forward free-form collage composition. The matching square napkin features butter-making tools in four panels.
This design appears in c.1949 and c.1951 Country Prints packing slips, and is pictured in a 1949 NY Times article; see images.
This design was produced in five colorways between c.1949 and c.1951: rust and green, chartreuse and blue, gunmetal and red, fuchsia and slate, or terra cotta and slate.
Edges are straight-stitched and fringed.
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr Wert
Role
Artist
Manufacturer
Country Prints
Date made
circa 1949
Time Period
20th Century
Place
* Untyped Place
Northfield MA
Notes
Date confirmed by 1949 New York Times article; see images.
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Placemat: unsigned
Napkin: “RW” in reverse on carved buttermold, and “BY HAND” on lid of buttermold.
