It’s rare for a commercial artist – the sort who draws for advertising or packaging – to win fame. So it’s not surprising that David Broad remains unknown.
It’s a pleasure to call attention to a man who did his first commercial work while a GI serving in the European Theater during World War II, and whose subsequent work, while varied, reflects both the changing times and the artist’s sense of fun.
Broad, a man who knows what he likes and sticks to it, decided to become an artist around age 11, when he watched a cousin draw. And he and his wife, Sue, who bought their brand-new Eichler in the San Rafael neighborhood of Terra Linda an hour after they saw it, have been living there now for 58 years.
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