Background
He was born in 1854 in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of a wealthy mill owner and industrialist from whom he received a large inheritance, which was later used to establish.
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Ralph Whitehead
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In his earlier years, he attended school at Harrow. Later, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained his Master of Arts degree in 1880.
Career
While studying at Oxford, he became a student of John Ruskin, who helped influence Whitehead"s interest in a utopian society based upon art, craftsmanship, and unity. In 1892, he left England for America. McCall had also been a student of John Ruskin, which is where they had first metropolitan
Her support and similar interests encouraged Whitehead"s desire for a community centered on the arts and crafts movement.
Together, the two attempted to create such a society in Italy, California, and Oregon in turn, all of which were failures. (a name coined from a combination of he and his wife"s middle names) occupied 1,500 acres (61 km2) in Woodstock, New York and quickly became a haven for artists known and unknown, representing all of his stated beliefs.
lieutenant stood as a "rural, utopian ideal based on the brotherhood of artistic collaboration" and focused on the "art of living through creative manual work." But, despite "s immediate success and future influence in developing the Woodstock area, the colony ultimately failed. Many causes have been cited, including Whitehead"s own lack of artistic ability (which tended to set him apart from the residents), and his failure to export or promote what the community created.
By the mid-1920s, residents began to leave.
Shortly after, Whitehead died from the effect, it is said, of his losses.
