Catherine Bancroft

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. — Walt Whitman

The largeness of nature of the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. — Walt Whitman

The door itself makes no promises
It is only a door — Adrienne Rich

From the intelligence test given to immigrants at Ellis Island: Would you wash stairs from the top down or from the bottom up? One woman's answer: I didn't come to America to wash stairs.

                Key to Paintings

Girl from Finland (sold) 12x12				Chinese Woman (sold)12x12				Algerian Man 12x12
Romanian Man with Dark Moustache and Hat 12x12				Greek Woman (sold) 12x12				Guadaloupe Woman II (sold)12x12
Girl from Alsace 12x12				Romanian Shepherd in Wooly Vest 12x12				Serbian Gypsy Woman (sold) 12x12
Serbian Gypsy Woman II (sold) 12x12				Greek Orthodox Priest (sold) 12x12				Boy from Syria 12x12
German Family from Eastern Europe (sold) 18x24				Man from Ethiopia 20x20				Albanian Soldier 24x18
Swedish Girl 24x18				Danish Man 24x18				Mother Holding Two Babies 20x20
Woman from the Netherlands and her Daughters 20x20				Three Boys (sold) 20x20				Sister and Brother from Eastern Europe (sold) 20x20
Rabbi (sold) 24x18				Syrian Mother and Child 12x12				Two Men in the Waiting Room (sold) 12x12