Educated at Stanford (B.A.) and The University of Washington (M.F.A.).

His teaching career of 37 years included The Universities of Texas at San Antonio and at Austin, The University of New Mexico and Western Illinois University.

He is a Fellow of The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland and is San Antonio Art League's Artist of the Year 2005.

He has 25 solo and extensive group exhibitions and is represented in many public collections which include:
The Austin Museum of Art
El Paso Art Museum
Illinois State Museum
McGraw Hill
Texas Instruments
SBC
USAA
Texaco
University of Texas at San Antonio
Southwestern Medical School, Dallas.