Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony

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This is the story of Byrdcliffe, an American arts and crafts colony—its first years, the artists who visited, and the artistic community they fostered.

Byrdcliffe was and remains a place of haunting beauty. More than a century 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 among like-minded people. Furniture, pottery, paintings, metalwork, and textiles were all made here, and the people themselves became an interwoven part of the place’s fabric.

Edited by curator Nancy E. Green, this publication accompanied a 2004 exhibition organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. With 256 pages and a trim size of 9 by 12 inches, this hardcover book includes 229 color and 173 black-and-white images. Published by Cornell University Press in 2015.