About

I have been painting, drawing, collaging, and constructing “art” pieces for 70 years. I took one one-hour watercolor class when I was 12, and that is the extent of my formal instruction. In that time, I have made around 600 “works” in all mediums and sizes. None were ever made for exhibition or for sale, only for my enjoyment and to improve my skills and eye. The DeYoung Museum holds a competition every three years, juried by museum curators and three local artists, open to local artists. Along with 11,000 others, I submitted a work of mine to the Open three years ago. When I didn’t get selected among the 650 works which did, I consoled myself that finishing in the top 651 wasn’t so bad. However, when I went to the show I figured I probably finished closer to 10,500. Last year I submitted again, along with 12,000 others. And my collage of me playing my resonator guitar in my living room (“428” on my site) was selected, and was exhibited in the Museum for three months among the other 650 works which were also selected. This was the first piece of mine ever shown publicly.

On my 80th birthday, I hired a professional photographer to take digital pictures of 550 of my works and then had all of them printed by an art printer in one format: 9 x 12, matte on heavy stock. This enabled me and anyone else to look at my pictures anytime, rather than going into my basement studio and searching among the storage to find something. This gave me great pleasure looking at my stuff that storage never provided. Then I contacted everyone who had ever expressed interest or appreciation for my work and told them to come over and take any originals they wanted. Maybe 100 were taken away under the provison that they be looked at someway but not thrown in the garbage.

Here are all the works as digitized by the photographer.

Tim