Discipline: Literature – poetry

Elaine Schwager

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971

Elaine Schwager (1949-2006)

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Elaine Schwager worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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