robert mclaughlin gallery – a visionary journey
A Visionary Journey
Works from the Collection of Terri Lipman
In 2013, the RMG invited Toronto and Prince Edward County-based collector Terri Lipman to share works by women artists from her vast collection. The exhibition, a riot of colour, form, texture, and subjects struck a chord with our audience and we were keen to revisit Terri’s eclectic and inspiring collection. This offering focusses on work by male artists.
There is a distinct difference between buying art and collecting art. Inevitably, collecting brings with it emotional responses, memories, connections. The latter is certainly the case for Terri Lipman.
Her collection was inspired by that of her parents’ and she has fond memories of her mother taking her to galleries and antique shops as a child. Thus began a passion for collecting historical art. But Lipman found that collecting the art of living artists was ultimately more fulfilling; she began to visit artists’ studios and make the links between the historic work in her collection and what she saw in contemporary practices.
Terri Lipman expresses her thoughts on the work in her collection:
There is a thread that links the old with the new. These artists have a reverence, knowledge and respect for their Canadian modernist predecessors not to mention their incredible skill and technique. They carry the torch but have a fresh approach and vision—a clear and strong sense of their place.
Meeting and forming relationships with artists led to introductions to others and their work—indeed, she credits artists as her mentors whose generosity have made her the collector that she is today.
As with the work of women artists, Lipman continues to be inspired by evidence of the “hand”—texture, form and colour. Her collection forms a continuum between the old and new as her vision continues to evolve.
Contemporary Artists:
Jay Isaac
Roberto Rosenman
Adrian Williams
David Doig
Andreas Drenters
Noel Middleton
Jeffrey Harrison
Morley Shayuk
Eli Langer
Simon Muscat
Andre Ethier
Robert Webster
Scott Mcdermid
Jerome Couelle
John Anderson
Jon Todd
Scott Griffin
Historical Artists:
William Ronald
Rolph Scarlett
Joseph Sydney Hallam
Gordon Mckinnley Webber
Ants Vomm
Bertram Brooker
Paavo Airola
Louis Archambault
William John Bertram Newcombe
Armand Flint
Sydney Hollinger Watson
Frederick Horseman Varley
Fritz Brandtner
Norman Elder
Phillip Surrey
Barker Fairley
Thomas Garland Greene
Roger-Francois Thepot
Hart Massey
Dik Zander
International Historical Artists:
Man Ray
Marcel Duchamp
Ben Nicholson
James Thurber
Lucien Weill
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