After graduating from Central Technical School, he studied at New York City's American Artists School on a scholarship during which time he wrote for the Columbia Workshop radio series.
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He took painting classes as an undergraduate at Columbia's Teachers College and after graduation began to study painting with Carl Holty and Francis Criss at the American Artists School, while simultaneously studying portraiture at the National Academy of Design under Karl Anderson.