From 1959 to 1962 he studied drawing, painting, printmaking at the Boston Museum School and drawing and sculpture with George Demetrios in Boston and Gloucester, Mass. The Museum School degree program with Tufts University awarded him a BS Ed in 1963. In 1964 he received a BFA from Yale University and in 1966 from Yale an MFA. Occasional studies were pursued with Professor Alfredo Barilli in Rome.