Marsden Hartley Quote

They want Americans to be American, and yet they offer little or no spiritual sustenance for their growth and welfare.


On the critics who push to stop his long European stay and to return. Letter to Adelaide Kuntz, June 23, 1928, Archives of American Art; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 81


They want Americans to be American, and yet they offer little or no spiritual sustenance for their growth and welfare.

They want Americans to be American, and yet they offer little or no spiritual sustenance for their growth and welfare.

They want Americans to be American, and yet they offer little or no spiritual sustenance for their growth and welfare.

They want Americans to be American, and yet they offer little or no spiritual sustenance for their growth and welfare.