Birth place: Butler, OH

Profession: Painter, portrait painter

Studied: Chicago; Cleveland, OH; ASL, 1929 (he was friends with Arnold Blanch, who introduced him to Woodstock in 1939)

Exhibited: WMAA; AIC; BM; PAFA Ann., 1949; Woodstock AA Gallery; Ganso, Perls & Ferargil galleries, NYC; Twenty Years of Painting, 1965-85, Woodstock, NY (together with his wife); Woodstock School of Art, 1998 (retrospective). Awards: Woodstock Fnd. Award, 1952; Sallie Jacobs Award, 1973"

Member: Woodstock AA (board directors)

Comments: WPA artist. Married to painter Carolyn Haeberlin (see entry) in 1942, shortly after he was drafted into the U.S. Air Force. After WWII, they settled in Woodstock, NY, where he painted portraits, mostly of his family, and everyday objects and scenes in a geometric-constructivist style.

Sources: Falk, Exh. Record Series; info. courtesy of Peter Bissell, Cooperstown, NY.

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