Higher Education:
1930-33
University of Oregon, School of Fine Arts
Major: Plastic Arts
1934
Chouinard School of Art, Los Angeles, California. Landscape Painting under Millard Sheets.
1935
Art Center School, Los Angeles, California. Seminar on history of art.
1936-38
Phillips Memorial Gallery, Studio House School of Art, Washington DC. Advanced painting and drawing under C. Law Watkins and Carl Knaths. Criticism and lectures by John Marin, Walt Kuhn, Augustus Vincent Tack, and other outstanding artists.
Teaching Experience:
1936-38
Professor of painting and drawing at Phillips Memorial Gallery, Studio House School of Art.
1937
Professor of drawing at Hood College, Frederick, Maryland
1941-46
Private classes of painting and drawing, La Paz, Bolivia
1954-56
Private classes of painting, Washington DC
1957
Professor of painting and drawing, Mexican-American Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, Mexico
1963-68
Private classes of painting, Washington DC
1966 and 1972
Intensive courses in painting, Greenville Art Center, Greenville, North Carolina
1969
Visiting Professor of painting, University of San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia
Professional Career:
1927-33
Commercial artist in Portland and Eugene, Oregon.
1933 to 1984
Portrait painter in the United States, Spain, and Latin America. Easel painter: landscape, still life, figure compositions, and various forms of abstract and non-objective painting. Printmaker: lithograph, dry-point, and wood block.