Nonetheless, he left the School of the Museum of Fine Arts after only a year, stating that "I was not inspired AT ALL in that place", and instead deciding that he wanted to travel around Europe for three years with his friend Jack Fisk, who was similarly unhappy with his studies at Cooper Union.
Ipak, napustio je studij nakon godinu dana, izjavivši: "UOPĆE NISAM bio inspiriran tim mjestom", te je isplanirao proputovanje Europom sljedeće tri godine s prijateljem Jackom Fiskom koji je također bio razočaran svojim studijem na Cooper Unionu.