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9781934260265

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Woodstock generally conjures up thoughts of the famed rock festival of 1969, but the first generation of artists came to Woodstock in 1903 when the Byrdcliffe Arts colony opened to become a utopian setting for artistic creativity and an important center for the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. -Antique Week Furniture, metalwork, paintings, photographs, pottery, textiles, and works on paper are illustrated in this book. Seven essays tell of the people and products of this Woodstock colony founded by British-born Ralph Whitehead and American Jane McCall in 1903, and dedicated to the ideal of a simple creative life in a healthful, beautiful setting. -Choice

"""Woodstock generally conjures up thoughts of the famed rock festival of 1969, but the first generation of artists came to Woodstock in 1903 when the Byrdcliffe Arts colony opened to become a utopian setting for artistic creativity and an important center for the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States.""-Antique Week ""Furniture, metalwork, paintings, photographs, pottery, textiles, and works on paper are illustrated in this book. Seven essays tell of the people and products of this Woodstock colony founded by British-born Ralph Whitehead and American Jane McCall in 1903, and dedicated to the ideal of a simple creative life in a healthful, beautiful setting.""-Choice"

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Nancy E. Green is The Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of European and American Art, Prints & Drawings, 1800-1945 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, where she has curated many exhibitions and written extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century fine and decorative art. She is the coauthor of Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts.

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