Yankee Doodles 112 placemat set in Brown and Spice.
Collection of Sara Leeper. Images: PKM
Name/Title
Placemat: Yankee Doodles 112, c.1951, Brown and Spice
Description
A two-color silkscreen print on off white linen rendered in a sketchbook-like manner depicting signature items in Wert’s design catalog: wooden ware; wrought iron cooking tools; roosters, hens and doves; calligraphic scrolls; trailing vines; hearts; and simple patterns reminiscent of calico textile prints. The matching napkin bears a color field covered with alternating circles, stars and crosses.
This placemat set was produced in as many as eight colorways over the course of several years in the early 1950’s. It appears on a c.1951 Country Prints packing slip and a c.1952 Country Prints brochure.
Edges are straight-stitched and fringed.
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr Wert
Role
Artist
Manufacturer
Country Prints
Date made
circa 1951
Time Period
20th Century
Place
Location
Gill MA.
Continent
North America
Notes
Date taken from a 1953 gift of the red colorway to the Uconn Historic Costume and Textile Museum from Robert Darr Wert.
Inscription/Signature/Marks
“W” in heart, and “by hand” at bottom lip of coffee pot, bottom left corner.
