Birth place:  San Francisco, CA

Death place: Orinda, CA

Addresses: Oakland, CA

Profession: Painter, illustrator

Studied: Art Center, San Fran., 1935; GGE, 1939; Partington Art Sch., San Fran.; Mark Hopkins Art Inst. with Theodore Wores & Frank Van Sloan; AIC with Reynolds, 1936; Calif. College Arts & Crafts (D.F.A., 1956).

Exhibited: Oakland Art Gal., 1933 (solo), 1938 (solo), 1941 (solo); Courvoisier Gal., San Fran., 1933 (solo); AIC; GGE, 1939; SFMA, 1940 (solo), 1976; Soc. Western Artists, 1949-61; NAD, 1954-58 (cert. of merit), 1959-68; AWCS, 1954-1958 (grand prize & gold med.), 1959-62 (prize), 1963 (prize), 1964-68; De Young Mem Mus., San Fran., 1957 (solo); Maxwell Gals., San Fran., 1961 (solo); Calif. State Fair, Sacramento, 1962 (first place purchase award); "Two Hundred Years of Am. Watercolor," MMA, 1966; Society of Six, Oakland Mus., 1972, 1981; Bohemian Club, 1975 (solo).

Member: NAD; AWCS; Soc. Illustrators Calif.; Oakland AA; Soc. Western Artists.

Work: NAD; Calif. State Fair Permanent Coll., Sacramento; Haggin Gal., Stockton, CA; Oakland (CA) Mus.; SFMA; San Diego FA Gal.; LACMA; Bohemian Club; de Young Mus.; MM; Calif. Acad. Sciences, Golden Gate Park; Reading (PA) Pub Mus. & Art Gal.; Frye Pub. Art Mus., Seattle, WA

Comments: Preferred media: watercolors, oils. Position: trustee, Calif. College Arts & Crafts, 1935-72. Teaching: Calif. College Arts & Crafts, 1935-44.

Sources: WW73; WW40; articles, Am. Artist magazine (June, 1962 & May, 1968); Society of Six, catalogue (Oakland Mus. Art Dept, 1972); Hughes, Artists of California, 341-42.


Biography courtesy of Who Was Who in American Art, the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.