"[If] modern art affords a sensation of the new, then Bartlett’s panoramic paintings of oceanic movement, emblematic of the stream of consciousness, fraught with psychic as well as physical energy indistinguishably one, then Bartlett’s sensational paintings—paintings that afford a seemingly endless number of new sensations, as the constantly moving waves, in endless process of change yet subliminally similar, do—are the grand climax of modern art."