He lived at 138 West 49th Street, then 14th Street on the very day he became 46 years old. Shortly afterward at 4 West 29th Street, between Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Full of enthusiasm, he continued his series of books of sketches of the cities he visited. He symbolically reflected the movement and atmosphere of New York. He then painted a series of portraits, including one of Joseph Stella. The vertical city enhances the orthogonal structure of his cityscape. He works at painting scenery and costumes of "The Great Way", a story of the joyful, the sorrowful, the glorious. In 1922, he exhibits at The Whitney Studio Gallery and the Society of Independent Artists together with Stuart Davis and Szukalski. He described his work as "expressionistic and geometric at the same time, and very dynamic".