 He went on to study and graduate from the Layton School of Art, which closed due to financial insolvency in 1974.He also studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduating in 1938.After serving on the anthropology staff of the Milwaukee Public Museum (1938–1942) and as director of the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts (1943–1944), he returned to Layton as an instructor in 1947.