After the devastating flooding in Italy in 1963, Wales helped save damaged artwork in Florence. He joined an international group of art restorers in 1966, to help save priceless works of art damaged during floods in Florence, Italy."The Terrible Plight of the Renaissance Land", Life Magazine, Dec. 16, 1966. Later, he did restoration work on the Spanish medieval art collection of the Deering family in Tarragona, Spain and in the United States.
