He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1935. He studied under William James Aylward (Howard Pyle’s pupil) at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts (Newark, NJ) and later with Paul Bransom in Jackson, Wyoming. His work has been influenced by the artists he admires most, including Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, William Robinson Leigh, Carl Rungius, and Frederic Remington.