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In the 1970s, when Covey Sharpe was in her sixties, the main
part of her collection was already established, and it was much
rarer to find old treasures in their places of origin. She began
collecting the work of contemporary folk artists and sharing the
interest of young Quebec ethnologists in contemporary folk art
and traditions. She was both a precursor and an influence on the
direction that collecting would take in Quebec. She even went so
far as to feed ideas to some craftspeople, both to see what they
would do with a subject and to satisfy the demands of a market
increasingly in search of the unusual.
Just a few days before her death in March 2002, Covey Sharpe
acquired her final piece of folk art, thanks to her friend
Léonard Anderson, who accompanied her one last time
before she departed on her final journey.
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