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He worked on the United States Treasury Art Project and the WPA Art Project from 1934-1940 doing easel paintings of New York water fronts and other local subjects.

Since 1940 he has been chiefly painting Negro life in the United States. "The Baptizing" included in the exhibition "Negro Art Comes of Age" presented by the Albany Museum of Arts and Science in 1945 was reproduced in Life Magazine in the issue of July 22, 1946. The culmination of two years' work was the showing in the Argent Gallery on 57th Street in New York of twelve paintings which presented the story of the Balld [[Ballad]] of John Henry. A special showing of the John Henry paintings and others dealing with Negro folk lore was held at the Countee Cullen Library in 1952.

Recent showings have been with the annual exhibitions of the American Veterans Society of Artists in New York, a water color "Old Paris Prison" receiving an Honorable Mention in the 1965 show. He was represented in the large exhibition - "The Evolution of Afro-American Artists" sponsored by the City University of New York, the Urban League, and the Harlem Cultural Council and presented in the fall of 1967 in the Great Hall of the City University by two paintings: a French fishing village scene "The Quai at Concarneau" and an early work "The Janitor Who Paints", loaned by the Smithsonian Institute from its permanent collection of Fine Arts.

At present he is engaged in painting scenes which suggest racial cosmopolitanism.