Wendell Jones studied at Dartmouth and the Art Students League and became known for his murals, which often featured majestic horses. He lived for ten years next to Hervey White who founded the socialist arts colony Maverick near Woodstock, New York. Faced with overwhelming expenses, White decided that the growing Woodstock area art community would willingly pay to participate in an event that would become the annual Maverick Festival. The late historian Alf Evers described the Festival:

 “Hervey wanted a Festival that would make use of music, dancing, pageantry, picnicking around campfires, dressing up in fantastic costumes, selling craft objects and food at booths as in Old World fairs, and in the display of artists skills and imagination in banners hung from trees and buildings.”

Jones came to the Maverick Colony after he married in 1931, which was the last year of the Maverick Festivals so this banner was probably done for one of the many other celebrations held in and around Woodstock.