Born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

1937-1942, Studies at Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, USA.

1948-1952 Studies at Art Students League, New York City, USA.

1953, Travels in Italy and Spain, settles in Paris. Meets with Jean Dubuffet, Georgesmathieu, Pierre Soulages, Michel Tapié and others american artists who live in paris such as : Laurence Calgano, Sam Francis, Norman Bluhm, Claire Falkenstein. He starts to pour his paint on canvas and paper, influenced by Gustave Moreau and Wols.

1954, first personal ehibition at studio Paul Facchetti in Paris, France.

1955, First personal exhibition in the USA at Seattle.

1959-1960, Studies Kant an Goethe. Uses an ivory knife to direct the flows of paint. Starts to title his paintings « Phenomena », titlefollowed by a sentence or special words. Travels to Spain, start to to use acrylic paint.

Recent personal exhibitions :

1990 Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan. Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France. Castello Doria, Porto Venere.

1991 Gimpel Weitzenhoffer gallery, New York, USA. Gimpel fils Gallery, London, England.

1992 Roswitha Haftmann, Zurich, Switzerland. Linea Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy. Associated American Artists, New York, U.S.A.. Atelier Franck Bordas, paris et la foire de Bâle. Galerie Guy Pieters, Knokkele-Zoute.

1993 Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto. Galerie Yoshii, Paris, France. Associated American Artists, New York, USA.

1994 Pasquale Iannetti Gallery, San Francisco, USA. Water and color, travelling exhibition in France.

1995 Associated American Artists, New York, USA. Château-Musée de Cagnes-sur-mer, France. Galerie Art Curial, Paris, France.