Ceramics

Zulma Steele

Ink stand, 1940s. Ceramic, 1½ x 4¾ x 5 inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Checklist of the Exhibition

Family And Background

Zulma DeLacy Steele, illustrator Periwinkle, by Julia C.R. Dorr (Lee and Shepard Publishers, Boston), 1894. Illustrated book, 8¼ x 11 inches.

Collection of Henry T. Ford and Michael G. Knauth.

Zulma DeLacy Steele

Untitled (Landscape with river), n.d. Watercolor, 23 x 27 inches.

Collection of Henry T. Ford and Michael G. Knauth.

Frederick Dorr Steele Figure, Monhegan, 1932. Etching, 7¾ x 6¼ inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Frederick Dorr Steele Study for The Influence, Monhegan, 1927. Pencil, 8½ x 10¾ inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Photographer unknown

Zulma Steele around age 20, c. 1901.

Photograph, 6¾ x 4¾ inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Photographer unknown

Zulma Steele in France during World War I c. 1917.

Photograph, 7⅜ x 4¾ inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Photographer unknown

Zulma Steele at the potter’s wheel, n.d.

Photograph, 4¼ x 3 inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Furniture And Furniture Design

Zulma Steele and unknown carver

Drop-Front Desk with Iris Panels, 1904. Cherry wood and paint, 50⅜ x 38⅜ x 16 inches. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Gift of Elise Glenne and the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Zulma Steele

Drop-Front Desk with Iris Panels (promotional drawing of finished desk), 1904. Graphite and colored pencil on paper, 9 x 6¾ inches. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Alf Evers Collection, Gift of the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Zulma Steele

Three-paneled woodbine design (for probable drop-front desk), 1904. Watercolor, 17½ x 30½ inches. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Alf Evers Collection, Gift of the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Zulma Steele

Maple Leaf Sideboard, 1904. Ink, 7½ x 8½ inches.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Gift of the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Zulma Steele

Table with Lily Legs, 1904. Oak, 30 x 144 x 48 inches.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Gift of Mark and Jill Willcox. Not illustrated.

Zulma Steele

Woodbine design for drop-front desk (oak desk at Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1904–1905. Ink and watercolor on paper, 5½ x 34⅜ inches.

Edna Walker

Wild Grape Leaves, Ink and watercolor on paper, 9½ x 27¼ inches.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Gift of the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Zulma Steele

Three-paneled drawing of crows (furniture carving design), c. 1904. Charcoal and watercolor, 15 x 68 inches.

Courtesy of Tom and Cheryl Wolf.

Zulma Steele

Footstool with Carved Lily Motif c. 1904. Poplar, 9¾ x 20¾ x 13½ inches.

Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Gift of Mark Willcox, Jr.

Attributed to Zulma Steele

Lamp Stand with Hollyhock Design, c. 1904. Oak, polychromed, 35¾ x 15¼ x 10 inches.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Gift of Gioia Timpanelli.

Zulma Steele

Woodbine nature study for furniture design, c. 1904. Watercolor and ink, 20½ x 29 inches.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Gift of the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Zulma Steele and Edna Walker, Designs for Mirror Triptychs, c. 1904. Graphite on paper, 14 x 13½ inches.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Gift of the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Painting

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Landscape), c. 1904. Oil on canvas, 28 x 29 inches. Private collection.

Zulma Steele (Untitled (Italy), 1912. Oil on canvas board, 8 x 10 inches. Courtesy of Tom and Cheryl Wolf.

Zulma Steele November, 1913–1914.

Oil on canvas, 27 x 36 inches. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Grey.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Mountain), c. 1910–1912. Oil on canvas, 13 x 15 inches.

Collection of Henry T. Ford and Michael G. Knauth.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Landscape with mountains) c. 1910–1912.

Oil on canvas, 12 x 14 inches.

Collection of Henry T. Ford and Michael G. Knauth.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Overlook Mountain in Winter) c. 1910–1912.

Oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches.

Collection of Henry T. Ford and Michael G. Knauth.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Landscape with evergreen), c. 1910–1912.

Oil on canvas, 11½ x 14½ inches.

Collection of Henry T. Ford and Michael G. Knauth.

Zulma Steele

Landscape, Winter, c. 1910–1912.

Oil on canvas, 8¼ x 10¼ inches.

Woodstock Artists Association & Museum,

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Grey.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Neo-Impressionist landscape), c. 1913–1914.

Oil on canvas, 27 x 36 framed inches.

Ira Brandes Collection.

Zulma Steele

The Lower Ashokan, c. 1914–1915.

Oil on canvas, 30 x 50 inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

The Big Mountain, Ashokan Reservoir, c. 1914–1915.

Oil on canvas, 30 x 50 inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

West Hurley Clearing—Ashokan Reservoir, c. 1914–1915.

Oil on canvas, 17 x 30 inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

Upper Reservoir, Ashokan, c. 1914–1915.

Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

Headwaters of the Ashokan Reservoir, c. 1914–1915.

Oil on canvas, 18 x 30 inches.

Private Woodstock Collection.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Mother and Child), late 1940s–1950s.

Oil on Masonite, 18 x 24 inches.

Collection of William Lanford.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Portrait of a Woman), late 1950s.

Oil on canvas, 15 x 14 inches.

Collection of Henry T. Ford and Michael G. Knauth.

Zulma Steele

The Ceremony, late 1950s. Oil on board, 10½ x 9½ inches. Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Gift of Henry T. Ford and Michael Knauth.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Girl with blue shirt) mid-1920s. Oil on Masonite, 9 x 4¼ inches.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Alf Evers Collection, Gift of the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Abstract), n.d. Oil on canvas, 27 x 36 inches.

Courtesy of Tom and Cheryl Wolf.

Works On Paper

Zulma Steele

Grand Army Plaza 1900. Charcoal on paper, 25 x 18½ inches.

Collection of the Historical Society of Woodstock.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Smoking actor) 1901. Ink on paper, 23 x 27 inches.

Collection of Henry T. Ford and Michael G. Knauth.

Zulma Steele

Self-Portrait 1901. Charcoal on paper, 7¾ x 3½ inches. Courtesy of Tom and Cheryl Wolf.

Zulma Steele

The Prodigal Father (page from The Plowshare), 1918. Linocut, 3¼ x 4 inches. Courtesy of Tom and Cheryl Wolf.

Zulma Steele Lily, c. 1903–1904. Hand-colored woodblock print, 12½ x 4¾ inches. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Alf Evers Collection, Gift of the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Woman Reading, Edna Walker?), c. 1903–1913. Graphite on paper (page from sketchbook), 5 x 3½ inches. Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Zulma Steele

Purple Mountain, c. 1910-1915. Monotype, 5¼ x 7 inches. Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele Bahamas, c. 1910-1915. Monotype, 6¾ x 10 inches. Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Trees and reflections), n.d. Monotype, 2¼ x 3¼ inches. Courtesy of Tom and Cheryl Wolf.

Zulma Steele

The Big Mountain c. 1914–1915. Monotype, 7¾ X 9½ inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Ashokan Reservoir) c. 1915. Four woodcuts, 3 x 4½ inches; 3 x 4 inches; 2¾ x 4 inches; 3 x 3½ inches.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Gift of the Douglas C. James Charitable Trust.

Zulma Steele

White Pines, 1916. Monotype, 3 x 5 inches. Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Gift of Jane Traum & Elise Glenne.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Abstract), late 1930s–early 1940s. Pastel, 4¼ x 3¼ inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Abstract), late 1930s–early 1940s. Pastel, 5¾ x 4¾ inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Woman shopping), late 1940s–1950s. Pastel, 3 x 5 inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Women with fruit), late 1940s–1950s. Pastel, 5 x 4 inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Zulma Steele

Untitled (Mystical scene), late 1940s–1950s. Pastel, 4½ x 4 inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Zulma Steele

Plant Studies/Border Designs, n.d. Pencil, pen, and watercolor, 23 x 17 inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

Self-Portrait n.d. Graphite on paper (page from sketchbook), 8 x 6¾ inches.

Collection of Janet Marsh Hunt.

Ceramics

Zulma Steele

Blue vase with scroll feet 1930s–1940s. Ceramic, 6½ x 4¾ x 3½ inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

Ginger Jar, 1930s–1940s. Ceramic, 8 inches high.

Collection of Linda and Donald Gregorius.

Zulma Steele

Ink stand, 1940s.

Ceramic, 1½ x 4¾ x 5 inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

Turquoise pitcher with smoky glaze, n.d. Ceramic, 6¼ x 11½ x 8 inches.

Collection of Jean Young

Zulma Steele

Bowl with oak leaf border design n.d. Ceramic, 2¾ x 8¾ inches.

Collection of Jean Young.

Zulma Steele

Turquoise cup with two handles n.d. Ceramic 6 x 6½ inches.

Collection of Joel Rosenkranz.

Zulma Steele

Zedware Bowl, n.d.

Ceramic, 6¼ x 12½ inches. New York State Museum, Historical Woodstock Art Collection of Arthur Anderson.

Textiles

Zulma Steele and Edna Walker, Hand-printed table runner with woodbine design 1907. Fabric, 76 x 30 inches.

Collection of George Coles and Robin Mizerack. Not illustrated.

Zulma Steele

Textile or wallpaper design, n.d.

Ink on paper, 16 x 16 inches.

Woodstock Artists Association & Museum

Gift of Michael T. Young.

Biographies

Henry T. Ford has served on the Board of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild for many years and has held the positions of vice-president, president, and chairman. From 2017 to 2020, he served as chair of the newly formed Advisory Committee, and in 2020 Byrdcliffe honored him by creating the position of Byrdcliffe Historian and by granting him Director Emeritus status. Henry’s commitment to Byrdcliffe and the Woodstock community has been further strengthened by his becoming a full-time Woodstock resident after twenty-five years as a weekender. He was also a member of the Woodstock Arts Board during the construction of the open-air Woodstock Playhouse and was a member of the Artists’ Cemetery Board. His passion for the region and the arts extends to his support of WAAM, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Historical Society of Woodstock, and Maverick Concerts. He is a potter and watercolorist, and he and his spouse, Michael, are avid gardeners who have participated in numerous Garden Tours to support the Arts. Henry and Michael are the proud caretakers of a comprehensive Woodstock Art Collection, which includes many pieces by the early Byrdcliffe artist Zulma Steele.

Tom WolF is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College. His principal areas of research are the history of art in the Woodstock, New York, art colony, and Asian American art. Among his recent publications are “The Tip of the Iceberg: Early Asian American Artists in New York,” in Asian American Art, A History (2008); Peggy Bacon: Cats and Caricatures (2011); The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2015; Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts, Samuel Dorsky Museum (2017); “The Centennial of the Woodstock Artists Association,” The Woodstock Artists Association, 2019; and “Doris Lee in Woodstock,” forthcoming from Weatherspoon Art Museum.

derin Tanyol was Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild from 2013 to 2019. She has a Ph.D. in Art History and has published and lectured widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and American art. Tanyol received a Fulbright Scholarship, a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, and a Bourse Chateaubriand for two years of research in Paris. She has curated many exhibitions, including solo shows of Nina Katchadourian, the Starn Twins, Georges Malkine, and Byrdcliffe co-founder Bolton Brown. Tanyol has taught Art History at Wesleyan University, the State University of New York at New Paltz, and Vassar College.

Bruce WeBer is an independent art historian of American Art, who has focused in recent years on the historic Woodstock art colony in his writing, lecturing, and curatorial work. Over the course of his career, he has served as a curator at numerous institutions, including the Norton Museum of Art, National Academy Museum and Museum of the City of New York. From 1990 to 2007, he was Director of Research and Exhibitions at Berry-Hill Galleries in New York City. Dr. Weber has curated numerous major exhibitions and written on a wide range of topics covering American art from the early nineteenth century to today, including on the subject of the apple and rose in earlier American Art, silverpoint drawing from the nineteenth century to the present, and aspects of the art and career of such diverse figures as William Merritt Chase, Marsden Hartley, and Stuart Davis. An exhibition of the work of the Woodstock/Saugerties sculptor Tomas Penning (1905-1982) curated by Dr. Weber is currently scheduled to open later this year at the Woodstock School of Art.

Acknowledgments

The show organizers would like to thank the following people and organizations:

Alan Axelrod, editor; Karlyn Benson, Exhibitions Director, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild; Doris Barnes; Stephen Blauweiss; Ira Brandes; George Coles and Robin Mizerack; Matt Conway, Registrar, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Tony DeCamillo, Art/Science Photographics; the late Beate Dumont; Henry T. Ford; the late Alf Evers; Matthew Ferrari, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; the late William H. Gerdts; Marty Giuliano; Michael Gotkin; Linda and Donald Gregorius; Dr. Thomas A. Guiler, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library; Tom and Janet Marsh Hunt; Doug James; Emily Jones, Archivist, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum; Tracy Kamerer, Senior Curator, American Craftsman Museum, Inc.; Michael G. Knauth; William Lanford; Robert W. Lang; Janice La Motta, Executive Director, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum; JoAnn Margolis, Archivist, Historical Society of Woodstock; Will Nixon; Andrea Potochniak, Editorial Manager, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Karen Quinn, Senior Historian/Curator, Art and Culture, New York State Museum; Joel Rosenkranz; Ed Sanders; Bob Steuding; Abigail Sturges; Paul Washington, Joanne Pagano Weber; Tad Wise; Cheryl and Tom Wolf; Jean Young; Michael Young.

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