nancy-whorf-american-1930-2009-trompe-l-oeil-painted-step-back-cabinet
Lot 336
Nancy Whorf (American, 1930-2009), Trompe-l'œil Painted Step Back Cabinet
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The cabinet is early 20th century, one part form, all-over painted surface in the style of a cast iron stove with accoutrements, upper hinged door opens to reveal a painted roaring fire with shelf, the lower cabinet with red and black painted shelved interior, raised on shaped bracket feet, signed Whorf in the painted calendar to the upper right.

72 x 28 x 24 in.

Private Collection, Burlington, North Carolina

The daughter of well-known watercolorist John Whorf.

Nearly all paint is intact; some minor paint loss and scraping; overall good condition.