About this title: Byrdcliffe is a colony founded as a center for artists and craftsmen in Woodstock. New York, in 1902-1903. It was started by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, a wealthy British disciple of John Ruskin and William Morris, who determined to make his mentors' visions of a communal arts and crafts colony a reality. In 1902 he bought twelve hundred acres on a mountainside overlooking the town. With the aid of artist-colleagues, including his wife, Jane Byrd McCall; Hervey White, a writer; and Bolton Brown, an artist; he erected thirty buildings to start the arts and crafts center he named Byrdcliffe. He ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Limited Editio
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of, Ithaca, NY
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780964604209ISBN:0964604205
Description: Black & White/Color Illus. VG/-- 4to., 256 pp., minor rubbing at edges. read more
Description: Good. 0964604205 Cover has mild wear. Otherwise in very good condition. Oversized. Priority or International Shipping may require an adjustment to charges. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art / Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780964604209ISBN:0964604205
Description: Very Good-/No Jacket. 4to 0964604205 256 pp. Internally clean, binding sound. Text block a little warped else NF. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780964604209ISBN:0964604205
Description: Fine. Exhibition Catalog. Oversize. A pristine copy of this beautiful catalog, which has a trememdous amount of informative text to accompany the photos. Byrdcliffe put Woodstock NY on the map as a nexus for creativity, and the photos show works of enormous beauty in many media, including furniture, ceramics, jewelry, fine binding, painting and metalwork. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: 2004-06-30
ISBN-13:9780964604209ISBN:0964604205
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Binding: Softbound.
Publisher: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780964604209ISBN:0964604205
Description: As New. A very generously illustrated history of this famous Catskills artists colony with many color and black and white photographs and short biographies of many of the artists who resided there over time. Includes essays by Ellen Paul Denker, Robert Edwardss, Heidi Nasstrom Evans, Nancy E. Green, Cheryl Robertson and Tom Wolf. Examines furniture, painting, etc. produced at this colony and those who made it. BW pictorial wraps. 256 pp., profusely illustrated in bw and color. read more
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