Erik Madigan Heck

Old Masters

After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ERIK MADIGAN HECK

T. Boone Pickens, chairman of BP Capital Management, 86, at the Lowell Hotel in Manhattan.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 81, in the Lawyers’ Lounge of the Supreme Court.

Roy Haynes, jazz drummer and bandleader, 89, in his basement practice space on Long Island. Haynes’s latest album was ‘‘Roy-Alty,’’ released in 2011.

Carmen Herrera, painter, 99, in her Manhattan studio. Herrera sold her first painting at age 89. Today her work is in the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Modern.

Ellsworth Kelly, artist, 91, at his studio in Spencertown, N.Y. Last year, President Obama presented Kelly with the National Medal of Arts.

Betty White, actress, 92, on set in Studio City, Calif. White currently stars in the TV Land original sitcom ‘‘Hot in Cleveland.’’

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