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Stuart and Donna WILENSKY
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Stuart and Donna Wilensky Fine Minerals began one day about 20 years ago at a flea market on Long Island. We were newly married and stumbled across a table filled with Arkansas Quartz and polished Agates. We instantly fell in love with a clear Quartz plate and bought it for the princely sum of $50.00 That night we took it home, placed it on our dining room table and just stared with wonder at the natural beauty. I had seen such things in natural history museums growing up but never thought we could own them.
I (Stuart) grew up in a very artistic family. My parents were art and antique dealers and I traveled the world with them visiting museums and studying every period in art from Egyptian to 20th century. I eventually went off to college and earned my masters in art history. Little did I know that every artist, every creative work I had ever seen would pale in comparison to the work of Mother Nature. My lifetime of aesthetic learning drew me rapidly towards the natural beauty of minerals. The appreciation of human art is but a reflection of nature itself.
Donna has the most incredible taste in beauty without any formal training and was as drawn to minerals as quickly as I was. We actively pursued their acquisition. We visited museums and mineral shops wherever we could find them from New York City to London. I had been a collector my whole life and knew that obtaining the very best was the only path. We both worked night and day constantly refining our taste and learning all that we could.
Photographing mineral specimens has been a great addition to enjoying and learning about them. It brings you close to the specimens and forces you to study them intimately. Since I cannot keep all of the specimens that continually pass through our hands at least I can possess its image.
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Stuart and Donna Wilensky
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| Last update 07.29.2002 |
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