His father’s contribution to the collector-in-the-making was more circumstantial. Her excursions with him in tow, mostly to the shops of Toronto and vicinity, were an early influence that explains in part his highly focused yet eclectic collections ranging in an astonishing proliferation through diverse materials, forms and genres. His mother’s antiquing in jewellery and glass as well as contemporary Canadian art added to the mix. To meet and speak with Lorne Shields is to encounter an extraordinary collector with a collection that spans more than 40 years, and at least as many intertwined collecting interests.Īs with many youngsters Lorne Shields remembers tadpoles first and postage stamps a little later as objects of interest and curiosity. Like to think that the passion for collecting is rooted in humanity’s prehistory as hunters and gatherers, that it feeds upon our need to situate ourselves in the environment, and that it satisfies our psychological hunger for a certain stability in time and space.
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