[2][3] He studied at Escuela de Bellas Artes in La Paz, with Belgian metal artist Adolfe Lambert [Wikidata].

[6][7] While working at the Palace he learned English and he would paint caricatures of his co-workers at the hotel, eventually they made him the "artist in residence".

[2][8] In the 1930s he painted two murals at the Palace Hotel, in the room known as “The Pied Piper.”[6] When he had first arrived in San Francisco he had wanted to be an architect, but over time he changed.

In 1937, he painted El Tigrero (1937) mural for the Richard Neutra designed Arthur and Mona Hofmann House in nearby Hillsborough, California.

[14][2] For forty years they lived in the Nob Hill neighborhood on Leroy Place in San Francisco.