Many years later, Mary Anne Goley, Fine Arts Program Director for the Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D. Together they formed a significant presence related to the evolving work of American artists in the early 20th century. At first we had been drawn to the Stieglitz group, which had very strong ties to William Merritt Chase (he had painted the portraits of both Stieglitz and Steichen), as many were his students – Ron of course was the leading authority on Chase - though many of the artists associated with the Whitney were also his students at the NYC based League.
In the early to mid-years of the 20th century, Woodstock, with ties to the Whitney Museum art circle, and a summer school for the Art Students’ League, represented a polar opposite to the art circle of Alfred Stieglitz – whereas Stieglitz was exclusive in his selection of artists he represented, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her museum director, Juliana Force, were inclusive in their support for artists of all stripes. Our feeling about collecting is that a focused and purposeful collection is most rewarding. I suspect we would never have thought to form a Woodstock Collection were it not for the people we came to know and their stories of the early days at Woodstock.
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