ABSTRACT
We lived in an apartment for the first five years we were married. My husband was in the University for three, so money was quite short. We were saving for a house. The day finally came when we were able to put a down payment down on a little first house and we were in the real estate office. He was asking about our assets and liabilities. We had no liabilities at that point and my husband said, 'WeIl we have several thousand dollars worth of art.' I knew what we had on OUf apartment walls and I didn't think it added up but he's a very honest and truthful person, so I just didn 't say anything the whole time. But when we came out ofthe office I said, 'How could it add up to that much?' And he said: 'I have a little confession'. We went back to the apartment and under our bed he had a little collection; and along with his student work he also had a little folder of Eskimo prints that all added up. That's the first time that I realized I was married to a collector. (L.M.'s wife)
l' d like to see some of it go into a public collection and l' d like to see the kids get a little of it. I don't feel strongly that it all needs to stay together but l' d like some of it to. It would be really nice for some of the Eskimo and the Inuit to stay together as a collection - even if it became part of a larger collection. 1'd like to see that. (L.M.)
Source
Kremer, R.A., 1992, 'Meaningful Materialism: Collectors' Relationship to New Objects' (unpublished PhD thesis, University ofBritish Columbia): llO, 115, 119.
