Marsden Hartley Quote

My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.... Some will say he's gone mad – others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices of Heaven and come back with the madness of splendor on him.


letter to Seumus O'Sheel, October 10, 1908, Hartley Archive, Archives of American Art; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 25


My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.... Some will say he's gone mad – others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices...

My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.... Some will say he's gone mad – others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices...

My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.... Some will say he's gone mad – others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices...

My work embodies little visions of the great intangible.... Some will say he's gone mad – others will look and say he's looked in at the lattices...