Research Catalog

Title

Byrdcliffe : an American arts and crafts colony / edited by Nancy E. Green.

Publication

Ithaca, N.Y. : Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Green, Nancy E.
• Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Description

256 p. : ill. (some col.), plan; 31 cm.

Subjects

• Byrdcliffe (Art colony) Exhibitions
• Artists > New York (State) > Biography
• Arts and crafts movement > New York (State) > Exhibitions
• Artist colonies > New York (State) > Exhibitions
• Decorative arts > New York (State) > History > 20th century > Exhibitions

Note

• Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2004.
• Exhibition itinerary: Milwaukee Art Museum, 25 June-19 Sept. 2004; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 16 Oct.-5 Dec. 2004; Albany Institute of History and Art, 28 Dec. 2004-28 Feb. 2005; New-York Historical Society, 15 March-15 May 2005; Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Winterthur, Del., 11 June-5 Sept. 2005.
• Includes index.

Contents

Byrdcliffe's history / Tom Wolf -- The reality of beauty : Ralph Whitehead and the seeds of a utopia in John Ruskin, William Morris, and Victorian England -- Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, cofounder of the Byrdcliffe Art School / Heidi Nasstrom Evans -- Byrdcliffe furniture : imagination versus reality / Robert Edwards -- Art at Byrd cliffe / Tom Wolf -- Purely for pleasure : ceramics at Byrdcliffe / Ellen Paul Denker -- Nature and artifice in the architecture of Byrdcliffe / Cheryl Robertson -- Works in the exhibition / Nancy E. Green and Tom Wolf -- Cast of characters / Nancy E. Green.

Call Number

JQZ 13-924

ISBN

0964604205 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 57694876
• 55803147

Title

Byrdcliffe : an American arts and crafts colony / edited by Nancy E. Green.

Imprint

Ithaca, N.Y. : Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2004.

Added Author

Green, Nancy E.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Research Call Number

JQZ 13-924