Book 05

04.17.09

Part 5

Documentation of the passage of a few people through the 3rd floor lab from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

The story of Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase

Anna and Steven Kellen Archives

Parsons the New School for Design

“Walt Whitman was a great man—he spoke as he felt. He didn’t regard the conventionalities of poetry.”

-Robert Henri

5

“William Merritt Chase” by

Ronald G. Pisano Watson Guptill

Publications, New York

“...the aim of every great artist, so far as technique goes, is, to as great an extent as possible to do away with the intermission between his head and his hand...”

-William Merritt Chase

Third Floor Lab

Third Floor

55 West 13th Street

New York, NY

10013