[4] Before he started his art career he began a two-year service in the Italian Army during World War 1.
[5] After moving to the United States in 1924,[5] he worked as a commercial artist in Pittsburgh and New York for several years.
In 1938 for one year and half, he presided art drawing classes at Disney during the production of Bambi.
[8] He also taught at UCLA, Tulane University and the Art Students' League of New York.
1944),[9] his widow, Constance, his mother, Assunta Lebrun, brother, Eugenio and sister, Maria.