我于1927年生于美国的明尼苏达州德卢斯城。我的祖父和父母都十分喜爱绘画,在他们的熏陶下,我从小就产生了对绘画的兴趣。 1947年,我作为美军的随军画家,第一次踏上了日本国土,并在佐世保逗留了一年。在这里,我看到了在家乡的大平原上少见不到的山峦。我完全被佐世保那种面海而立、依山傍水、起伏多变的风景所感动,那景色中的色彩也常常使我激动不已。但当时日本战败后的混乱局面和繁重的事务性工作,都使我无暇拿起画笔。最后,我终于抱憾离去。 退役回国后,我在明尼阿波利斯美术学校学习了一年半的素描和油画。 I was born in 1927 in the United States, Duluth, Minnesota. My grandfather and parents are very fond of painting, under their influence, I grew interest in painting since childhood. In 1947, as a military painter of the U.S. military, I first set foot on the territory of Japan and spent a year in Sasebo. Here, I see the mountains that I can not see in the homeland’s Great Plains. I was completely overshadowed by Sasebo’s sea of ​​view, touched by the rolling landscape of mountains and water, and the colors of the scenery often made me excited. However, when the turmoil after Japan’s defeat and its heavy-handed work at that time left me with no time to pick up the brush. Finally, I finally regret to leave. After returning from retirement, I studied sketches and paintings for a year and a half at the Minneapolis Art School.