HERVEY
WHITE
AND THE
MAVERICK ART COLONY
THE
JEAN GAEDE AND
FRITZI STRIEBEL ARCHIVE
CENTER
FOR
PHOTOGRAPHY AT
WOODSTOCK
The Maverick Oral Histories
| In 1968 Jean Gaede and Fritzi Striebel began the task of documenting Woodstock's Maverick Art Colony, founded in 1905 by Hervey White as a utopian community for musicians, artists, writers, and actors. As one of the founders of the Byrdcliffe Colony at Woodstock, White had become disillusioned with its management and goals and set out to found his own colony, where creative individuals could be free to pursue their own avenues of expression. Gaede and Striebel were enchanted with the Maverick story and started an oral history project, recording the recollections of artists who had been an active part of the Colony. The result is a collection of some 47 oral histories recorded between 1968 and 1979 preserved on 40 casette tapes. A small selection of these recollections were transcribed and can be found in Woodstock Gatherings: Apple Bites and Ashes, Jean Lasher Gaede, Woodstock, (n.d.). |  |
Those participating in the Maverick Oral History Project
| Isaac
Abrams (1970s) Grant Arnold 1974 Lucile Blanch 1971 Alan Carey Jim Cooney Aileen Cramer 1975 Gwen Davies 1975 Ken Downer, Gladys Feeley 1968 Eleanor Edwards Hanno Schrader 1975 Sophie and Jack Fenton Karl Fortress Eugenie Gershoy Alan Gordon 1971 Nina Graboi Allison Goodrich 1970s Grace Greenwood 1974 Agnes Hart, Eugenie Gershoy 1975 |
Rosella Hartman Adolph Heckeroth
1970 |