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Chicago Lawyer Arthur Jerome Eddy and His Eclectic Art Collection

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Arthur Jerome Eddy, the Chicago lawyer, author, and art collector, was a legend in his lifetime (1859-1920). He was the first person to buy radically modern paintings by Marcel Duchamp and Francis ...
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Arthur Jerome Eddy, the Chicago lawyer, author, and art collector, was a legend in his lifetime (1859-1920). He was the first person to buy radically modern paintings by Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia at the 1913 Army Show, the first American collector to purchase works by Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and arguably the first person to write a book about modern art in the U.S. A prominent corporation lawyer, one century later, Eddy is best known as a collector of modern art. This book explores how he began to collect, when and from whom he bought art, which artists he favored, and why he acquired certain works and not others. Illus.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 185
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date: 01 January 2022
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9781606181126
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: ART / American / General
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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Family, Flint, and Education
3. Move to Chicago, 1888: Law Practice; Activities; and Marriage
4. World's Columbian Exposition, Early Collecting, and Posing for Whistler, 1894
5. Next Trip to Europe and Rodin, 1898
6. Delight, the Soul of Art; Five Lectures; Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile, 1902
7. Pasadena, His House, Friends, and Fishing, 1905—07
8. Writings: Tales of a Small Town, Ganton & Co.; Plays; and The New Competition
9. Art Interests, 1911—12
10. The Armory Show, 1913
11. Trip to London and Munich: Kandinsky, Jawlensky, and Genin, 1913
12. Subsequent Purchases: Marc, Münter, Klee, and Bloch, 1914
13. Cubism and Post-Impressionism, 1914
14. Joseph Müller and Edwin Campbell, 1914
15. Manierre Dawson, Charlotte Pollak, and the Americans
16. Albert Bloch Exhibition, 1915
17. More Americans: Man Ray, Charles Demuth, and Rockwell Kent
18. Final Years and Death
19. Dispersal of the Collection
Index