Arthur Jerome Eddy

Arthur Jerome Eddy ( born November 5, 1859 in Flint, Michigan, † July 21, 1920 in New York City ) was an American art collector and critic and lawyer. He was among the first Americans, who for the modern art of the early 20th century, particularly for the pictures of Wassily Kandinsky, interested and wrote about it.

Life

In the late 19th century Arthur Jerome Eddy wrote mainly books on legal and economic issues. His interest in art awakened in 1893 by the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, where he came in contact, especially the works of James McNeill Whistler and Auguste Rodin. Eddy, who went to Paris in the mid-1890s, was founded in 1894 by Whistler in the painting Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy portrayed. During this time, Rodin also created a portrait bust of Eddy.

1902 appeared under the title Delight, the Soul of Art his first book about art. In the following year he published the Whistler biography Recollections and impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler. After 1912, he then focused on the art of budding 20th century. So he acquired in the Armory Show 1913 in New York City with a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and then began by buying 25 paintings together a collection of avant-garde art. On trips to London and Germany, he met Wassily Kandinsky and bought even before 1920 four of his works. Later he expanded his collection of modern art to over 100 works.

In 1914, his book Cubists and Post - Impressionism, which built up to a large extent on information given by Eddy the artist himself appeared. It is considered one of the first utilities in the U.S., where the modern art was presented and explained - at the same time it contained the first presentation of Kandinsky in America. Eddy shifted the focus of his collection in his last years on the American Modern, including some on paintings by artists such as Arthur Garfield Dove. After his death in 1920 the collection was first dissolved. 1931 acquired the Art Institute of Chicago 23 paintings from Eddy's former collection and taught Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial herewith the vector a. The earliest image of this collection is the philosopher, Beggar with Oysters by Édouard Manet, created 1864-1867. Approximately 30 years later arose Coast of Maine by Winslow Homer and the portrait of Eddy's Whistler. However, the focus of Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection is located on art, which emerged in the first two decades of the 20th century and illustrate the innovative nature of the collection Eddy. Among the best known artists in this collection include Gabriele Münter, Franz Marc, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, each represented with a plant in the collection. By Wassily Kandinsky Art Institute acquired all four works from the Eddy collection. Other artists in the collection Eddy at the Art Institute are Albert Bloch, Emilie Charmy, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Robert Genin, Auguste Herbin, Amadeo de Souza - Cardoso and Eugène Zak

Images of Collection Eddy

Winslow Homer: Coast of Maine

Franz Marc: The Enchanted Mill

Works

• The farmer 's complete cyclopedia. The Eddy printing and publishing house, Flint, Michigan 1885
• The law of Combinations embracing mono polies, trusts, and Combinations of labor and capital. Callaghan and company, Chicago 1901
• Delight, the soul of art. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia 1902
• Recollections and impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia 1903
• Ganton & Co.; a story of Chicago commercial and social life. McClurg, Chicago 1908
• The new competition; on examination of the conditions underlying the radical change is taking place did in the commercial and industrial world. Appleton, New York 1912
• Cubists and post- impressionism. A. C. McClurg & co., Chicago 1914