sentences:  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.In 1950 he received the Pulitzer Award for Painting.Among his other honors is the 1968 Premio Grafico Fiera Internazionale di Bologna; the 1979 Medallion of The University of Southern Mississippi; the 1991 Kerlan Award of the University of Minnesota; the 1991 Regina Medal of the Catholic Library Association; a National Jewish Book Award (1980); the Christopher Medal for Illustration (1981); and the American Library Association's 1994 Arbuthnot Citation, and Westport's (CT) Lifetime Achievement Award for the Visual Arts, among others.