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A pioneering figure in the American studio craft movement, Philadelphia-born Wharton Esherick received his largest commission in 1935, when Judge Curtis Bok and his wife Nellie Lee Bok hired him to renovate the first-floor interiors of their home in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania. Esherick designed this compact, Cubist-inspired radio-phonograph cabinet to fit into a shelf unit in their library, so they could pull it out to listen to music.
The Museum acquired woodwork from the Bok House when it was demolished in 1989.
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Title: | Radio and Phonograph Cabinet |
Date: | 1936-1937 |
Artist: | Wharton H. Esherick (American, 1887–1970) |
Medium: | Cherrywood |
Dimensions: | 27 1/2 × 23 × 29 1/2 inches (69.9 × 58.4 × 74.9 cm) |
Classification: | Furniture/Furnishings |
Credit Line: | 125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of Enid Curtis Bok Okun, daughter of Curtis and Nellie Lee Bok, 2001 |
Accession Number: | 2001-201-3 |
Geography: | Made in Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America |
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