Professor Emeritus of Art
Penny Stamps School of Art & Design
University of Michigan

Born in Detroit, raised in Lansing and Grand Rapids. Educated at the University of Michigan 1939-41. College of Engineering and College of Architecture and Design. Degree B. of Design, 1948. U.S. Navy, 1941-45.

Employed by the University of Michigan College of Engineering, Willow Run Research Center as Technical Illustrator 1951-57, also teaching, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1957-85, as Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, 1967-74, as Associate Dean, College of Architecture and Design; 1974-76, 1984-85; as Associate Dean, School of Art. Retired 1985.

Painting was my primary interest form the start. I did drawings and watercolors in the Navy and went on from there. Traveled in the U.S. and Europe to look at the galleries and collections, studied J.M.W. Turner in England with the aid of Faculty Rackham Grants. I have worked in ceramics and photography, painted in oils, acrylics, and watercolor and have made collages and combines for years. I am proud to be one of the founders of the Ann Arbor Potters’ Guild. The major theme of my painting has been the landscape as affected by men in the last two hundred years with their industrial revolution, wars, and national delusions. Within that scope I have been much taken by the machines that move, so I paint them frequently.

Represented in these public collections and a number of corporate and private collections.
I have had about 110 one-person shows.

Public Collections

Henry Ford Community College
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
U.S. Information Agency
Grand Rapids City Hall
Butler Institute of American Art
Grand Rapids Community College
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Battle Creek Art Center
Grand Rapids Art Museum
First UU Congregation, AA
St. Paul Art Center
Toledo Museum of Art
Northwestern Michigan College
U-M Alumni Society
Rackham School of Graduate Studies, U-M
U-M Museum of Art
Albion College
U-M Clements Library
Muskegon Community College
U.S. Navy Art Gallery, Washington DC