What Esherick was Reading: Architecture Wharton Esherick was a voracious reader with both professional and personal connections to the literary

Wharton Esherick outside the Studio, 1961. From the 1920s through the 1960s, Wharton Esherick created a small compound

WEM Curatorial Assistant Alex Till. In 2020 the Wharton Esherick Museum was delighted to welcome Alex Till to

Helene Fischer at Schutte & Koerting Co., Philadelphia, 1944.   In 1942, German American businesswoman Helene Fischer became

Tucked among the handcrafted furniture and fixtures of Esherick’s Studio are those few items not made by Esherick himself –

Wharton Esherick's 1958 Cabinet Desk. Photo courtesy of James Mario.   A drawer is something that most of