Hervey White

<p>White left Byrdcliffe in 1905 and, along with Fritz van der Loo, purchased a farm in the Hurley Patentee Woods and envisioned it as a new art colony where old restrictions on individual freedoms would be replaced with an environment where men and women could live freely. White called it Maverick, with a simple creed: “Do what you want to (as long as you don’t harm others).” White’s vision was for those who marched to the beat of a different drummer, or perhaps even played a strange hand-made drum for that matter. Visual artists, writers, crafts-folk, musicians, and actors were pulled in the Colony’s direction, as if the grounds were magnetized for creativity.</p>