How does an artist write his or her own story through architecture, interiors, and objects collected and displayed? What makes this a distinctive way of defining a legacy beyond their own works? This lecture, and its related exhibition at the Chaim Gross Foundation, examines the history of the Greenwich Village home and studio of American sculptor Chaim Gross. It also considers the building and collections within the broader context of artists’ homes and studios in the Village, SoHo and beyond in the 1950s and 60s.