A Kick-Start on Collecting

Reggie’s background had prepared him to become a collector, but it was a sudden change in the global financial climate that kick-started the process. We dove into that story, and then discussed how his collecting took an equally sudden turn and set him on a course of personal engagement with the visual arts.

“So fast forward. I moved to New York to be with my wife, a doctor and a Temple graduate. She attended medical school on Long Island and I went to live with her. We , nine and ten came, and all of a sudden the world fell apart. No one had money, institutions didn’t have money, and I started to buy art.

So I was buying significant objects that became available at a fraction of the day’s cost. I was buying modern American Masters who happened to be African American artists. (Henry Ossawa) Tanner, Hughie Lee-Smith, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett. You name it, I was buying it.”

I mentioned to Reggie that it was striking https://gorgeousbrides.net/pt/garotas-coreanas-gostosas-e-sexy/ that while ‘everything was falling apart’ he had the discipline to know that the crisis was actually a buying opportunity and that he didn’t fall into the cycle of fear that seemed to wash over everyone else.

“I saw it as relative value. The world was falling apart. So here is where my profession kicks in. I’m thinking about an asset class… art. I’m looking at objects that I think are significant and they’re within reach. But even then discipline did come in. I mean I have to tell you the number of objects I should have bought that I didn’t because of the number (price) that was attached to them. (더 보기…)