Byrdcliffe
Subtitle: an American arts and crafts colony
By: Ellen Paul Denker ... [et al.] ; edited by Nancy E. Green.
Contributors: Denker, Ellen.; Green, Nancy E.; Milwaukee Art Museum.
Publisher: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Byrdcliffe (Art colony) -- Exhibitions; Decorative arts -- New York (State) -- Woodstock -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Arts and crafts movement -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "Byrdcliffe was, and remains, a place of haunting beauty. One hundred years ago, it was established as an Arts and Crafts colony in the heart of the Catskill Mountains. Craftsmen, writers, and musicians came, lured by the atmosphere of creativity amid like-minded people. Furniture, pottery, paintings, metalwork, and textiles were all made there and the people themselves became an interwoven part of the fabric of the place. This is the story of the first years of the colony, the artists who visited, and the artistic community they fostered in Woodstock, New York."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Milwaukee Art Museum and four other institutions between June 25, 2004 and Sept. 5, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Byrdcliffe's history / Tom Wolf; title: The reality of beauty / Nancy E. Green; title: Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead / Heidi Nasstrom Evans; title: Byrdcliffe furniture / Robert Edwards; title: Art at Byrdcliffe / Tom Wolf; title: Purely for pleasure / Ellen Paul Denker; title: Nature and artifice in the architecture of Byrdcliffe / Cheryl Robertson.