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- Title
Clifford Wright, Painting Yaddo Red.
- Authors
Field, Edward
- Abstract
The article relates the author's experience at the Yaddo artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York. He becomes friendly with Clifford Wright who made guests comfortable. Yaddo director Elizabeth Ames tried to maintain some formality at the retreat despite abuses of the genteel environment that included drag parties. There was resentment against the multi-racial artists and "queers" from town vandals. There was a scandal involving poet Robert Lowell who is said to have been seduced by Charles Sebree and caused a federal raid on Yaddo at the height of the Senator Joseph McCarthy witch hunt. Clifford was arrested in the raid and feared that the names of his homosexual friends would be exposed. When Clifford returned to Yaddo he had an affair with poet and painter Ralph Pomeroy. The gay life and travels of Wright are detailed, including his relationship with Elsa Gress.
- Subjects
SARATOGA Springs (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States; SPIRITUAL retreat centers; AUTHORS; ARTISTS; WRIGHT, Clifford; LOWELL, Robert, 1917-1977; POMEROY, Ralph; GRESS, Elsa; SCANDALS
- Publication
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 2004, Vol 11, Issue 4, p31
- ISSN
1532-1118
- Publication type
Essay