This early Texas artist first studied art with Frank Reaugh and Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, later attending the Art Students League in New York. Over the next twenty years he was known as one of the most accomplished artists in North Texas. He exhibited widely, and his credits include the Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design, Texas Centennial Exposition, New York World's Fair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, and museum exhibitions across the state of Texas .