Arthur Jerome Eddy

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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 one of the first Americans to be interested in, and to write about, modern art of the early 20th century, especially the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky .

Life

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

In 1902 he published his first book on art under the title Delight, the Soul of Art. The following year he published the Whistler biography Recollections and impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler . After 1912 he then concentrated on the art of the early 20th century. For example, he acquired a sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși at the Armory Show in New York City in 1913 and then began to put together a collection of avant-garde art by purchasing 25 paintings . While traveling to London and Germany, he met Wassily Kandinsky and bought four of his works before 1920. He later expanded his modern art collection to over 100 works.

In 1914 his book Cubists and Post-Impressionism was published , which was largely based on information that Eddy received from the artists themselves. It is considered to be one of the first works in the United States to depict and explain modern art - at the same time, it contained the first depiction of Kandinsky in America. Eddy shifted the focus of his collection in the last years of his life to American modernism, including paintings by artists such as Arthur Garfield Dove . After his death in 1920, the collection was initially dissolved. In 1931, the Art Institute of Chicago acquired 23 paintings from Eddy's former collection and thereby established the Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection . The earliest picture in this collection is the philosopher, Beggar with Oysters by Édouard Manet , taken between 1864 and 1867. About 30 years later, Coast of Maine by Winslow Homer and the portrait of Eddy by Whistler were created. The focus of the Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection , however, is on works of art that were created in the first two decades of the 20th century and illustrate the innovative character of the Eddy Collection. The better-known artists in this collection include Gabriele Münter , Franz Marc , André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck , each of whom has one work in the collection. The Art Institute acquired all four works in the Eddy Collection from Wassily Kandinsky. Other artists in the Eddy Collection at the Art Institute are Albert Bloch , Emilie Charmy , André Dunoyer de Segonzac , Robert Genin , Auguste Herbin , Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and Eugène Zak .

Pictures from the Eddy Collection

  • Édouard Manet:
    philosopher, beggar with oysters

  • Winslow Homer:
    Coast of Maine

  • Franz Marc:
    The enchanted mill

Works

  • Come let us reason together . The Eddy printing and publishing house, Flint, Michigan c. 1884
  • The farmer's complete cyclopedia . The Eddy printing and publishing house, Flint, Michigan 1885
  • The law of combinations of embracing monopolies, trusts, and combinations of labor and capital . Callaghan and company, Chicago 1901
  • Delight, the soul of art . JB Lippincott Co., Philadelphia 1902
  • Recollections and impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler . JB Lippincott Co., Philadelphia 1903
  • Ganton & Co .; a story of Chicago commercial and social life . McClurg, Chicago 1908
  • The new competition; an examination of the conditions underlying the radical change that is taking place in the commercial and industrial world . Appelton, New York 1912
  • Cubists and post-impressionism . AC McClurg & co., Chicago 1914

literature

  • Art Institute of Chicago (Ed.): The Arthur Jerome Eddy collection of modern paintings and sculpture . Chicago 1931
  • Art Institute of Chicago (Ed.): Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago . Chicago 1961
  • Frederick A. Sweet: Great Chicago Collectors in Apollo Magazine September 1966
  • Anne Distel: Les collectionneurs des impressionnistes, Amateurs et marchands La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris 1989 ISBN 2-85047-042-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Arthur Jerome Eddy at www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org
personal data
SURNAME Eddy, Arthur Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art collector and critic and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Flint , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1920
Place of death New York City