As a teenager, he studied privately with painter Frank B. A. Linton, a former student of Thomas Eakins, and spent a year in Sweden in the atelier of painter Otte Sköld.
He studied privately with painter Frank B. A. Linton. This was as a teenager. He spent a year in Sweden in the atelier of painter Otte Sköld. This was as a teenager. Painter Frank B. A. Linton was a former student of Thomas Eakins.