[1] He was married to costume designer, artist and educator Germaine Cheruy and lived in the Art Colony of old Fort Lowell.
His time with Rodin brought him into close contact with the art world of Paris in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
At the end of the war, Cheruy returned to the United States and for many years was head of the Department of French at the Loomis Preparatory School in Windsor, Connecticut.
In 1924 he returned to France and married Germaine Cheruy He was a founder of Le Salon Francais of Tucson and at the time of his death vice president of that organization.
He wrote numerous articles on art and related subjects and was preparing his memoirs, in which he planned to discuss his time with Rodin.