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Changing Talents Before (& After) Retirement

Posted on September 27, 2023 By Hey You

Of those who retire from their years of work, many continue their talents but use them for new personal projects. Some spend more time with what they were enjoying on their ​“days off”.

I have written of these artists (below) in the past (search Geezer’Gallery and add name). Also, you can see their current websites at right: ​“Artist’s Sites” & ​“Still In the Game”.

Dave Broad, Lowell Herrero, Bruce Wolfe, Ward Schu­maker and Jack Allen

After working as a humorous illus­trator at Land­phere Asso­ciates in San Fran­cisco, Dave Broad continued free-lancing from his home studio for B of A, Sunset Books and others. Dave returned to water­color as his favorite painting medium. A solid member of Marin Society of Artists and the Cali­fornia Water­color Asso­ci­a­tion, Dave won numerous CWA Awards and other contests earning him the rare distinc­tion of Master Signa­ture member in the CWA. He painted well into his mid-90s, expanding his bound­aries and chal­lenging his creativity.

Landphere Sample
Land­phere Sample 
Hodge Podge 4
Hodge Podge 4 
Dave Broad
Dave Broad 
Jam Sunset
Jam Sunset 
Dave Broad BofA
Dave Broad BofA 
Dave Broad
Dave Broad 
Dave Broad 2008
Dave Broad 2008 

Another artist known for his humorous commer­cial art, was Lowell Herrero who still had a whim­sical style in his move into fine art. On September 1, 2007, a book or 224 pages was published showing Lowell Herrero’s paintings.

Herrero 1966
Herrero 1966 
Goodyear
Goodyear 
Herrero Fall Vineyard available
Herrero Fall Vine­yard available 
Herrero Book Signing
Herrero Book Signing 
Lowell Herrero
Lowell Herrero 
Herrero Page from book
Herrero Page from book 

Bruce Wolfe had just turned 20 years old when he was employed by one of the largest adver­tising agen­cies, Foote, Cone & Belding as an art director doing design, layout and tele­vi­sion. His years as an illus­trator followed. In his down­time he painted and sculpted friends, such as photog­ra­pher Ed Zak. Then, all of his creative time was devoted to sculp­ture of famous persons.

Wolfe
Wolfe 
Wolfe's LaGioconda
Wolfe’s LaGioconda 
Fender guitar catalog
Fender guitar catalog 
Wolfe's friend Ed Zak
Wolfe’s friend Ed Zak 
Bruce Wolfe SF Chronicle
Bruce Wolfe SF Chronicle 

Ward Schu­maker, as a commer­cial artist, quickly moved beyond the usual adver­tising accepted style, His lettering and illus­tra­tions showed a step into fine art. His clients accepted his unique style. Special shows and art galleries are now his venues.

Schumaker Esquire
Schu­maker Esquire 
Schumaker
Schumaker 
Ilustration Ward Schumaker
Ilus­tra­tion Ward Schumaker 
Schumaker Mooses Restaurant
Schu­maker Mooses Restaurant 
Schumaker books
Schu­maker books 
Schumaker collage
Schu­maker collage 
Schumaker 2014 Tears in Drowing Book
Schu­maker 2014 Tears in Drowing Book 
Ward Schumaker
Ward Schumaker 

After alter­nating his roles as an art director or photog­ra­pher, Jack Allen retired and continued in fine art. His painting style was easily adapted as subjects for jigsaw puzzles.

Jack Allen Leslie Salt 1963
Jack Allen Leslie Salt 1963 
Jack Allen Open Classification
Jack Allen Open Classification 
Jack Allen Easter Outfits
Jack Allen Easter Outfits 
Jack Allen PacTel
Jack Allen PacTel 
Jack Allen Painting
Jack Allen Painting 
Jack Allen Telegraph Hill painting
Jack Allen Tele­graph Hill painting 
Jack Allen Bits & Pieces puzzle
Jack Allen Bits & Pieces puzzle 

Some of us, found ourselves on projects that we never attempted before.
This is about Murray Hunt (who unknow­ingly gave a huge project to Dick Moore and myself).

Murray Spartan Type Book
Murray Spartan Type Book 
Spartan Typographers
Spartan Typographers 
Murray with kayak
Murray with kayak 
Murray with Dick Cole at Geezer Picnic
Murray with Dick Cole at Geezer Picnic 

Murray Hunt had repre­sented Spartan Typog­ra­phers. Spartan’s owner, Jim McGlynn, had been to the Haas’sche Schrift­giesserei (Haas Type Foundry) of München­stein, Switzer­land and brought back the new 1957 type font – Helvetica –exclu­sive to their shop in Oakland at that time. The type became a huge favorite (and still is) as we are using it here on this site.
Murray became a good friend to all, as he called on the SF Bay Area’s graphic community.
His off-hours passion was white water kayaking in the Sierra foothills. He invited me into his group. No way!
When he retired from Spartan, he still kayaked, but found the time to look back into the life of his step-great grand­fa­ther, Matthew Turner (the Cali­fornia builder of 228 tall-sailing ships and other sea going vessels). Murray then wrote a family book.
At the same time, plans were being made to build a tall wooden ship (in Sausalito, CA) to teach young and old about sailing and the sea.
Alan Olson, who envi­sioned the ship, inter­viewed Murray. Alan chose the design of one of Matthew Turner’s ships, re-designing it to accom­mo­date 38 berths forward for ​“overnighters”.

Here’s where Dick and I came-in (after our retire­ments). Murray invited us to an opening cele­bra­tion, the ​“Keel Laying Cere­mony” on 10-19-2013. We attended and we took a few photos that day.

Celebration 2013
Cele­bra­tion 2013 
Celebration Family & Friends
Cele­bra­tion Family & Friends 

Then when work was to begin building the Matthew Turner, Dick and I promised Murray that we would send him a few views by email, since he lived too far north to visit Sausalito easily.
For a few months we did just that, sending our photos and getting nice emails from Murray as he appre­ci­ated each sending. But then Murray, who was well up in years, passed away on May 15, 2014.
We kept taking photos. A monthly visit to the construc­tion site fit our schedule for Dick’s once-a-month visit to the SF VA hospital for a B‑12 shot. We would swing down into Sausalito on our drive home. This was a change in our lives using photog­raphy which we previ­ously didn’t use profes­sion­ally. We each had taken photos (mostly just for family).
After each visit to the ship, there was an eval­u­a­tion of what we had shot. I had used a small camera using a ​“non-shake” mode and ​“no-flash” mode so that we could move quickly through the workmen and work space to not disturb anyone. I carried batteries in my pocket. There were no charging possi­bil­i­ties if we had a camera that would need that. Dick did carry an iPhone and his Nikon for wide angle shots.
A partial photo­graphic record would be of no use to anyone. We did not know the construc­tion time needed to bring the ship to when it would be sailing full sail on the San Fran­cisco Bay.
Our monthly visits covered Oct.19, 2013 to February 27, 2020. By then we had more than 3000 usable photos.

At the computer (with Photo­shop) I squared, color balanced, cropped and dated each visit.
Here is where I was in a self-imposed assign­ment that had no back­ground in my 40 years in my graphic art career. Dick was a commer­cial illus­trator and water­color artist.
What to do with the edited-down 3,365 chosen shots?
First I created a book The book is ready (but the publishing houses appar­ently aren’t)
It has a lot of written history that I was able to collect. The photos, in sequence, show the progression.

Full cover
Full cover 
The Designers
The Designers 
Mathew Turner's Galiee
Mathew Turn­er’s Galiee 
Captan Mathew Turner
Captan Mathew Turner 
The Dedicated 2013-2020
The Dedi­cated 2013 – 2020 
Professional Skilled June 5th, 2022
Profes­sional Skilled June 5th, 2022 
The Shipwrights
The Shipwrights 
June 5th, 2017
June 5th, 2017 
September 11th 2016
September 11th 2016 
April 1st 2017
April 1st 2017 
Sail, Explore, Learn
Sail, Explore, Learn 

With the book, I wanted to reach the people that worked on the this beau­tiful ship. Alan Olson suggested that I present a video, first.

I taught myself Apple’s iMovie and even added music and some back­ground sounds (here and there) and even zoomed-in using the ​“Ken Burns” effect. it was a big job for me. Covering all the photos, the docu­men­tary is long but the viewer can stop, move ahead or book­mark it to watch later.
I chose the plat­form, Vimeo, because it has no adver­tising inter­rup­tions. I don’t know any other educa­tional report of a subject like this that shows the monthly record of a tall ship growing from a stack of wood to the finished ship, sailing full-sail.
Our assign­ment ended just before the ship was complete (just a few items still not in place). Because of Covid-19, visi­tors were no longer allowed the ship. But, luckily, every­thing that was impor­tant on the ship WAS DONE and the crew could live aboard!

Here is the link to Vimeo, which was sent out to the 550 volun­teers who worked on the ship:
The Building of the Matthew Turner
https://​vimeo​.com/​8​4​6​0​4​3​988

There are credits throughout, for the photos that were taken, when and where we couldn’t be.

So, here was an after-retirement project, that came from a friendly invi­ta­tion from our friend, Murray Hunt. Dick Moore and I thor­oughly enjoyed our new creative project.

Dick now is daily painting new watercolors.
I never, before retire­ment, attempted writing! Geezer’s Gallery in 2010 was my first attempt. Then (like Murray) I wrote my family history. The Matthew Turner book brings me to the present. I still find more to write here on our monthly, Geezer’s Gallery.
(I do miss drawing.)

I thank you for your interest,
Ann Thompson


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