Name/Title
Towel, Wallhanging: Miller 205Description
A six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting a miller with barrels of his product set alongside a village with a mill and waterwheel supporting the phrase, “Remember the miller when you eat your bread”. This is a c.1954 update of an earlier design of the same name and number.
This towel/wallhanging/runner appears in the c.1954 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints Kitchen Hangings”; see images.
An undocumented matching placemat set was also produced.
In the mid-late 1960’s, this design was used as inspiration for a vertical towel/wallhanging of the same name.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1953Notes
Date taken from a description in a NYT article which indicates there were matching placemats as well. See Archive, Editorial: 1954.9.25.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.Inscription/Signature/Marks
“wert by hand” with heart, lower left corner.Dimensions
Dimension Description
ApproximateHeight
17 inWidth
30 inMaterial
Textile Ink, Bleached LinenColor
Red, Teal, Light Blue, Light Green, Light Gray, Black
