Born in Concord, Massachusetts, he studied at the Boston Museum School and at the Art Students League in New York City.
He was a gifted teacher as well as oil painter and was a long-standing member of the Rockport Art Association, which he served as Treasurer.
[1][2] His work is included in the Museum Collection of the Rockport Art Association and was featured in a traveling exhibition titled 'Images of a New England Seacoast' 1900–1950.
He provided the illustration for the American edition of a popular Christmas book, The Man at the Gate of the World.
He is best known for marshy landscapes and harbour scenes, but he painted on occasion a Boston house that caught his fancy.