Tile: Red Lobster 535

Object/Artifact

Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Red Lobster 535, unsigned.

PKM collection. Images: PKM, unless noted.

Name/Title

Tile: Red Lobster 535

Description

A two-color silkscreen overglaze print on a white tile blank depicting a lobster and two buoys with a rope border. This tile appears in the brochures “Country Prints by Robert Darr Wert and Neighbors”, c.1963 and c.1966; see images. A matching towel/wallhanging and apron were also produced; see links. The artwork for the towel/wallhanging is signed by Massachusetts artist Al Winant, who also likely developed the artwork for the tile and apron (the apron is signed “Winant”). This unsigned example was likely produced by Country Prints’ tile maker, Ceramo Studio, after Bob Wert’s death in 1966. Sometime around 1969, Ceramo purchased a number of Country Prints tile designs and continued producing them without Country Prints identifiers.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Ceramo Studio, New York, Country Prints

Date made

circa 1962 - circa 1965

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, screen production, and mixing of colored overglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of overglaze colors, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC. This design is printed on the thinner tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio from 1962 onward.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“by hand”, lower left corner.

Dimensions

Height

1/4 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Overglaze Colors, Cork, Ink

Color

Red, Black