On the faculty, internationally acclaimed figurative artists Rico Lebrun and Francis de Erdely attracted students who later achieved distinction in their own fields such as sculptor Marisol Escobar ("Marisol"), painters Frederick Hammersley and Delmer J. Yoakum, illustrator David Passalaqua, art director Richard Bousman, and architectural sculptor Malcolm Leland.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Museum of Modern Art | Art Deco | Metropolitan Museum of Art | California Institute of Technology | Art Institute of Chicago | Institute for Advanced Study | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | National Gallery of Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | American Institute of Architects | Whitney Museum of American Art | Georgia Institute of Technology | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Art Nouveau | Royal College of Art | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Walker Art Center | Rochester Institute of Technology | Franklin Institute | art | Royal Institute of Technology | Pasteur Institute | Institute of Contemporary Arts | Glasgow School of Art | Museum of Contemporary Art | California Institute of the Arts | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | British Film Institute | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he came to Los Angeles and studied with Henry Lee McFee, Phil Dike, and Rico Lebrun; and at Chouinard Art Institute, Jepson Art Institute, and the University of Southern California's Roski School of Fine Arts.