Marsden Hartley Quote

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.


letter to Alfred Stieglitz, October 9, 1919, Hartley Archive, Yale University; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 68


My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in...

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in...

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in...

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in...