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Since the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony in Woodstock, New York, in 1984 and 1985, the furniture produced there has been of great interest to students of the arts and crafts movement in the United States. Examples are now in the decorative arts collections of the most important American museums, but there has been little study of the sources that inspired Byrdcliffe designers.
Research has focused so far on the founders of the colony, Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and Jane Byrd Whitehead (nee McCall), and their connections to the major figures of the arts and crafts movement, documented by the vast Byrdcliffe archives ...