Print, Christmas: 1949 Wert Family Christmas Greeting
Description
A three-color silkscreen print on tan colored paper. This was Robert and Margaret Wert’s Christmas greeting for 1949. The design incorporates fields of alternating rows of stylized Christmas trees and six-pointed stars printed in red (on the exterior) and metallic gold (on the interior). Over the gold, a passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene I, is printed in black.
At the top edge of the red printed area is the embossed trademark for Strathmore papers.
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr Wert
Role
Artist
Manufacturer
Country Prints
Date made
1949
Time Period
20th Century
Place
* Untyped Place
Northfield MA
Inscription/Signature/Marks
“Bob + Margaret Wert”, lower left corner of greeting interior.
