Military Service
A veteran of World War II (1942–1946), he served at home and overseas with the US Army's 30th Engineer Topographic Battalion, participating in the tactical mapping of Mediterranean, European and Pacific Ocean invasions and campaigns. Education Following the war he attended the Yale School of Art receiving BFA and MFA degrees (1949,1950), the John Ferguson Weir Prize, and William Wirt Winchester Traveling Fellowship.
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