[1] In the 1930s he shared, with Will Rowell, a roomy studio in Grosvenor Chambers on Collins Street, a building with a long history of artist tenants.
[5] He made a series of paintings depicting the Great Barrier Reef for the Australian National Travel Association.
[6] He taught drawing at Swinburne Technical College in 1935, then in 1936 was appointed director of the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, and became a member of the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board, along with directors of the Melbourne and Sydney galleries, plus G. V. F. Mann, Will Ashton and Harold Herbert.
[7] He served during World War II as deputy director of camouflage for South Australia.
[8] His last years were spent at the home of a relative, Hugh McCubbin, of Punt Road, South Yarra.