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Long before the famous music festival in 1969, Woodstock, New York, was home to what is considered America’s first intentionally created, year-round arts colony—founded in 1902 and still thriving over 100 years later.
Learning Woodstock Art Colony is devoted to the endlessly rich and fascinating history of the art colony that developed in the Catskill town of Woodstock, New York, with the founding in 1902 of the Byrdcliffe Art Colony on a mountainside overlooking the village.
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The Woodstock Art Colony in the town of the same name began as two colonies. Originally known as Byrdcliffe, it was founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and Bolton Brown.
Long before the famous music festival in 1969, Woodstock, New York, was home to what is considered America’s frst intentionally created, year-round arts colony—founded in 1902 and still thriving over 100 years later.
Aug 14, 2003 · Byrdcliffe began in 1903 when the son of a millionaire Yorkshire textile baron, Ralph Whitehead, and his American wife, Jane Byrd McCall, founded an art colony in the hills above Woodstock,...
Long before the famous music festival in 1969, Woodstock, Ulster County, was home to what is considered America’s first intentionally created, year-round arts colony—founded in 1902 and still thriving over 100 years later.
Aug 16, 2019 · In 1902 Englishman Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead founded the Byrdcliffe arts and crafts colony in Woodstock, the first of its kind in the United States. At Oxford, Whitehead was a student of writer and art critic John Ruskin and the founder of the arts and crafts movement, William Morris.
