"To guard its still secret existence, I always enter the studio/workshop via an overgrown garden, and then through the now hinged and padlocked back window. There, in a drawer of a substantial oak desk, I discovered a collection of US Army Manuals. Under them lay the Pearl Harbor edition of the 1941 San Francisco Chronicle, the one where the word War! dominates the page. I suppose this could be coincidental, but..."
"Probably it is not coincidental. There are artists who might know who the man you seek is or was. Karl Kasten, for instance, who served as an intelligence officer with an Army Engineer Combat Battalion, but, since the initial occupant of the hotel workshop was probably an art historian, I'd start with Ken.” The University Archivist smiled. Ken's interruptions of her days were always welcome. And now he was on an adventure to discover the impact on the work of “Scottish Colorist” Leslie Hunter of the time Hunter spent first on a Los Angeles orange orchard and then in pre-earthquake San Francisco.
"Kendrick MacGillivray." she said. “He probably would have been too old to enlist after Pearl Harbor. He's over 90 now, but, as do all librarians who retire from this campus, he still has a library card with access privileges. And he's still doing research in his field which was -- and still is -- Early California Art History."