He met with success early in his career, winning the Pulitzer traveling scholarship in Art at the age of 22.
Among his works were several murals at the public library in Holyoke, Massachusetts,[3] depicting among others Elizur Holyoke and Rowland Thomas; a mural finished in 1942 at the Columbus Junction, Iowa, post office titled Lovers Leap; a post office mural, Joseph Deford and His Friends Build the First Cabin in Bluffton (1941) in Bluffton, Ohio;[4][5] and one at the Museum of Fine Arts[6] in Springfield, Massachusetts.
He has been described as "a witty, clever painter and draughtsman, [who] likes to paraphrase the old masters, copying some of their most famous works, and incorporating them into vividly colored hard-edge backgrounds.
"[7] In the years around the United States bicentennial celebration in 1976, he produced paintings that included references to well known images of George and Martha Washington.
He was commissioned to paint a colorful and decorative mural featuring an image of George Washington on the side of a building in Worcester, Massachusetts, in that era.