Arthur Jerome Eddy (5 November 1859 in Flint, Michigan - July 21, 1920 in New York City, New York) is an American art lawyer, author, collector and art critic.
Arthur Jerome Eddy (also referred to as Arthur J. Eddy) is a prominent member of the first generation of Modern American art collectors. His book Cubism and Post-Impressionism is the first American book to promote this new art movement and the work of Wassily Kandinsky. Contrary to other early American collectors of modernist work, attracted to French modernism almost exclusively, Eddy also collected works by German expressionists and Wassily Kandinsky. He is also known for his support of the Arms Show, purchasing works from shows in New York and Chicago and giving lectures on art during the Chicago show. In 1931, a portion of Eddy's collection was donated by his widow and son to the Art Institute of Chicago as "Arthur Jerome Eddy's Monument Collection" which is an essential core of the Museum's collection of Modern art.
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Family
Arthur Jerome Eddy is the son of Jerome Eddy, Mayor of Flint Michigan and Consul to Canada. His father bought the paper Flint Michigan, the Genesee Democrat. After running the paper itself, Jerome Eddy hands over the management of a paper to Arthur Jerome Eddy. Arthur J. Eddy married Lulu Crapo Orrell, grandson of Michigan Governor Henry H. Crapo and General Motors founding cousin William Crapo Durant. His son, Jerome Orrell Eddy was born May 12, 1891 and died December 28, 1951.
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Home
The family lives in 4152 N. Sheridan in Chicago, Illinois.
The family maintained a second home in Pasadena designed by Frederick Roehrig in 1905. The house is referred to as "the most complete example of the California Arts and Crafts interpretation (Southern California!)." William Le Baron Jenney wrote an article, "Exceptional Residence," about Eddy's House in Inland Architect and May News Notes in 1906. An article on the house was published in The Craftsman magazine. The house is "one of the most important bungalow designs of the time, greatly affecting farm-style homes across California and then the United States." The Pasadena House was demolished in 1973.
Education
One source said that Eddy graduated from Harvard University's "literary department". A second source indicates that he "entered Harvard Law School in 1877 but in 1879 returned to publish the Genesee Democrat newspaper and continued his law studies with a local expert.In 1888 he moved to Chicago to begin his legal career, passing the Illinois Bar on in 1890. "
Business career
Mr. Eddy practiced corporate law with Wetten, Matthews & amp; Pegler, who later became the firm of Eddy, Wetten & amp; Pegler. Mr. Eddy is one of the driving forces in creating a National Carbon Company that incorporates several carbon companies into one company that controls about 75% of the US carbon market in the world. Carbon is used to make many products related to electricity usage. He helped organize the American Steel Foundry Corporation, the National Turbine Company, and the American Linseed Oil Company. He helped found the Bridge Builder's Society.
Books and Posts
He writes on various subjects and in various formats. These include "2000 Miles on an Automobile" (Travelog), "Law of Combinations" (economy), "Tales of a Small Town" (short story), "Ganton & amp; Co." (novel) and "The Warning" (plesetan). He wrote several very important books about art including "Delight, Soul of Art", "James McNeill Whistler Record", and "Cubism and Post Impressionism."
He wrote an article on the tile roof that appeared in Gustav Stickley magazine, The Craftsman . She contributed poetry and edited Chicago's literary magazine, Contributors' Magazine, which is a self-published work on Club Contributor. Club members include Eugene Field, Harriet Monroe, George P. Upton, Potter Palmer, and John J. Glessner.
Automobiles
Mr. Eddy is an early car enthusiast. The New York Times reported that he set a record on a car trip by traveling 2900 miles in two months. The journey began in Chicago on August 1, 1901. He traveled to Boston and returned to Chicago on September 30, 1901. He writes about this journey in his 1902 book, "Two thousand miles on a car, into a narrative that does not focus on traveling through New England, New York, Canada and the West "under the pseudonym" A. Chauffeur. "He drove the Winton Motor Carriage Company in 1901. In 1902, he drove Panhard to Flint Michigan to visit family and gave Margery Durant, William Crapo Durant's daughter, his first car. His father, the future founder of General Motors, replied: "Margery, how you can be, how can you be, be so stupid to risk your life in any of those things."
Art and Protector Collectors
His interest in art did not wake up until he saw the Colombian World Exposition in Chicago, where he was most often taken with the work of James McNeill Whistler and Auguste Rodin. Eddy, who traveled to Paris in the mid-1890s, was described by Whistler in the painting. Setting in Color Meat and Chocolate: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy . Around the same time, Rodin also carves Eddy portrait statues, bronze casts located in MusÃÆ' Â © e Rodin in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. In 1902 his first book on art, entitled Delight, Soul of Art , was published. The following year he published James A. McNeill Whistler's Records and impressions. Thus through 1912 he focused on late nineteenth-century art.
For Eddy, for many Americans, the 1913 Arms Show proves a revelation of Modern art. Fascinated by the efforts of these artists, he immediately embarked on an Avant-garde art collection with the purchase of a BrÃÆ'nà ¢ ncu statue? I and 25 paintings. "In New York, Eddy bought the 15 most radical works on display, including Marcel Duchamp Portrait of Chess Player (1911) and King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes (1912), Albert Gleizes's Man on a Balcony (1912), and Francis Picabia's Dances at the Spring. [19] In Chicago, he bought three additional paintings by Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, as well as three lithographs by Maurice Denis and four by ÃÆ' â € ° Douard Vuillard. "On two occasions during the show, Mr. Eddy lectured on" Cubism "at the Art Institute of Chicago.
On his way to London and Germany, he learned of Wassily Kandinsky and in 1920 had bought four of his paintings. Kandinsky introduced Eddy to another artist to work in Munich at the time, Albert Bloch. Eddy will be the most important collector of Bloch, having more than forty paintings and paintings. Eddy's collection in modern art will evolve into more than 100 works of art.
1914 saw the publication as probably his most important writings, Cubism and Post-Impressionism, largely based on information acquired by Eddy from the artists themselves. It is considered the first work published in the United States where Modern Art is presented and described sympathetically. In addition, it was Kandinsky's first sufficient report in America; the artist was represented by only one painting at the Armory Show the previous year.
In the final years of his life, Eddy shifted his focus to American modernization, including several paintings by artists such as Arthur Dove.
Death
He died after surgery for acute appendicitis at the Post-Graduate Hospital in New York City.
In 1921, Louis Sullivan designed the "family memorial cage" with "Dimensions: ca: 51 '(diameter)" at the unbuilt Michigan Glenwood Cemetery.
Memorial Collection
After his death in 1920, several collections were disbanded. The Art Institute of Chicago exhibited its collection from 19 September to 22 October 1922. In 1931, his widow and son donated 20 paintings and 3 statues to the Art Institute of Chicago to form Arthur Jerome Eddy's Collections. as described below.
The collection includes 19th century works:
- ÃÆ' â € ° douard Manet - A Philosopher (Beggar with Oysters) (1865)
- Winslow Homer - Coastal Maine (1893)
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy (circa 1896)
This collection is recorded because it contains members of the Der Lau German Reiter (The Blue Rider) movement:
- Gabriele MÃÆ'¼nter - Still Life with Queen (1912)
- Franz Marc - The Bewitched Mill (c.1912)
- Wassily Kandinsky - Trojka (1911), Landscape with Two Poplars (1912), Improvisation with Green Center, No. 176 (1912)) and Improvisation No. 30 (1913)
Further the artist represented in the Eddy Art Institute collection:
- Albert Bloch - Scene from Pantomime (1914)
- Emilie Charmy - Landscape: L'Estaque (about 1910), (Firearms Show)
- Andrà © Å © Derain - Forest in Martigues (circa 1908), (Firearms Show)
- Amadeo de Souza Cardoso -
(1911) (Firearms Show), Marine Pont L'Abbe (1911), (Firearms Show), and < i> Stronghold (Weapon Show - Chicago only) - Maurice de Vlaminck - Rueil (c.1912), (Weapon Show - Chicago)
- AndrÃÆ' Â © Dunoyer de Segonzac - The Pasture (c.1912), (Firearms Show)
- Robert Genin - Haus (1913)
- Auguste Herbin - House and Flowering Cherry Trees: Hamburg
- Eugène Zak - The Shepard (Armory Show)
The sculptures in the collection are:
- Constantin BrÃÆ' ¢ ncu? i - Sleeping Muse (1910), (Firearms Show)
- Auguste Rodin - Male Mask with Broken Nose (1864) and Arthur Jerome Eddy ( Bustrait Bust ), (1898)
Paintings from Eddy's collection
Bibliography
- Let's Let The Common Ground: Rates, Facts and Figures for Labor, Farmers, Manufacturers . Eddy Printing and Publishers, Flint, Michigan c. 1884
- An Ordinary Talk to Farmers on Tariff . Flint, Michigan 1984
- Farmer's Complete Encyclopedia: A summary of practical information on all subjects related to agriculture and households . Printing Eddy and Publisher, Flint, Michigan 1885
- Combination Law: embraces monopoly, trust, and a combination of work and capital . Callaghan and Company, Chicago 1901
- Two thousand miles over the car; into a careful narrative of the journey through New England, New York, Canada, and the West J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia 1902. Originally published under the pseudonym "Driver."
- Fun, artistic soul . J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia 1902
- James A. McNeill Whistler Recording and Impressions . J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia 1903
- Little Town Stories: By Someone Living There J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia 1907
- Roof tile; suitable building types and construction methods that make them practical and beautiful The Craftsman, May 1907
- Ganton & amp; Together.; a story of Chicago's commercial and social life . McClurg, Chicago 1908
- Unmask! a drama, 1909
- New Competition; examination of conditions underlying the radical changes occurring in the commercial and industrial world. D. Appleton, New York 1912
- Cubism and Post-impressionism . A. C. McClurg & amp; Co., Chicago 1914
Resources
- The Chicago Art Institute: Arthur Jerome Eddy's collection of modern paintings and sculptures . Chicago 1931
- The Chicago Art Institute: Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago . Chicago 1961
- Distel, Anne. Les collectionneurs des impressionnistes, Amateurs et marchands La BibliothÃÆ'¨que des Arts, Paris 1989 ISBNÃ, 2-85047-042-2
- Dictionary of Art Historian, "Arthur Jerome Eddy"
- Robson, A. Deirdre. "Eddy, Arthur Jerome." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online , (accessed February 28, 2012; subscription required).
- Sweet, Frederick A. Greater Chicago Collector in Apollo Magazine September 1966
References
External links
- The works of Arthur Jerome Eddy at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Arthur Jerome Eddy in the Internet Archive
- Arthur Jerome Eddy at the Art Institute of Chicago
- The portrait statue of Auguste Rodin from Eddy, on Musà ©  © e Rodin
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