Arthur Jerome Eddy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arthur Jerome Eddy

Modernist art collector, writer, and businessman

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1859

Place of Birth: Flint, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 21-Jul-1920

Profession: lawyer, journalist, art collector

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Arthur Jerome Eddy (November 5, 1859 in Flint, Michigan- July 21, 1920 in New York City, New York) was an American lawyer, author, art collector, and art critic. Arthur Jerome Eddy (also referred to as Arthur J.
Eddy) was a prominent member of the first generation of American Modern art collectors.
His book Cubists and Post-Impressionism was the first American book promoting these new art movements and the work of Wassily Kandinsky.
As opposed to the other early American collectors of modernist works, who were interested in French modernism almost exclusively, Eddy also collected the work of the German expressionists and Wassily Kandinsky.
He is also known for his support of the Armory Show, purchasing work from the show in New York and Chicago and lecturing on the 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 the "Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection" which is an important core of the Museum's collection of Modern art.



Description	British-American painter, etcher, illustrator, writer and lithographer
Date of birth/death	11 July 1834	17 July 1903
Location of birth/death	Lowell	Chelsea
Authority control	: Q203643 VIAF: 46804212 ISNI: 0000 0001 0895 7868 ULAN: 500012432 LCCN: n79032293 NLA: 36233967 WorldCat