His art has been in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
He was the first sculptor instructor at the University of California in Los Angeles.
He was President of the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districs in 1946 in New York City.
During World War II, he served the United States Army Corps of Engineers in England where he taught a unit of artists making topographic models. At war's end, he taught art to soldiers waiting to return home from France.
He studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and studied with figurative sculptor, Crl Milles.
He studied sculpture classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and studied with Russian sculptor, Alexander Archipenko, at the Unviersity of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in 1936.