 He apprenticed as a letterer with then-letterer and future prominent illustrator Saul Tepper before beginning a five-year stint at the commercial art studio of Alexander Rice.He left the studio to begin a freelance career and soon his illustrations started appearing in such magazines as "Life", "Collier's", and "The Saturday Evening Post", and by 1943 was featured on the cover of "American Artist" magazine, recognized as "one of the best and highest paid in the field of advertising illustration.