Studied: Northeast Missouri State Teacher College (B.S., 1928), Broadmoor Art Academy with Randall Davey and Ernest Lawson, 1927, 28 (summers), with Boardman Robinson 1932-34; at the Art Students League with Kimon Nicolaides and Thomas Hart Benton, 1929-30 and in California with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1930-32. Taught at Cheyenne School District in Colorado Springs beginning 1935, taught intermittently over next years, then at Cheyenne Mountain High School, 1953-69; University of Missouri, 1946-47; Columbia College (MO), 1948-51; University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1971. Murals: South Church, Moberly, MO (circa 1927); Municipal Auditorium, Colorado Springs, CO (1935); Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (1937); Northeast Missouri State Teacher College (1941); Cheyenne Mountain Elementary School, Colorado Springs (1954); post offices in Red Cloud, NE (1941); Manitou Springs, CO (1932). Author/illustrator of Oil Painting for Beginners (1929); "Transplanting of Culture," Magazines of Art (March, 1937); "Artists West of the Mississippi," Magazine of Art (September, 1938); Musick Medley: Intimate Memories of a Rocky Mountain Art Colony (1971). Had regular column, "Artist and Art," in Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph beginning April, 1938. Selected exhibitions: Denver Annual, 1928 (prize); Broadmoor Art Academy, 1928 (prize); Colorado State Fair, 1927, 28, 30, 50 (prizes for last three); Artists West of the Mississippi, 1936-38, 40-41, 45; New York World's Fair, 1939; Art Institute of Chicago, 1940; Pennsylvania Academy of Art, 1941; Carnegie International, 1941; Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1945; Corcoran Gallery, 1951; Civic Center Library, Scottsdale, AZ, 1971 (one-man); Saks Galleries, Denver, CO, 1973, 75, 77 (one-man). Work in National Museum of American Art, Missouri State Historical Society, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, private collections in Denver and Colorado Springs.
