Arthur Jerome Eddy

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.

Arthur Jerome Eddy is the son of Jerome Eddy, Mayor of Flint Michigan and Consul to Canada. His father purchased the Flint Michigan paper, the Genesee Democrat. After running the paper himself, Jerome Eddy turned over management of the paper to Arthur Jerome Eddy. Arthur J. Eddy married Lulu Crapo Orrell, a granddaughter of Michigan Governor Henry H. Crapo and cousin of the founder of General Motors, William Crapo Durant. His son, Jerome Orrell Eddy was born May 12, 1891 and died December 28, 1951.

The family lived at 4152 N. Sheridan in Chicago, Illinois.

The family maintained a second home in Pasadena designed by Frederick Roehrig in 1905. The house was cited as "the most complete example of the California (Southern Californian!) interpretation of Arts and Crafts principles."William Le Baron Jenney wrote an article, "A Remarkable Dwelling," about the Eddy House in the May 1906 Inland Architect and News Record. An article about the house was published in The Craftsman magazine. The house was "one of the most important bungalow designs of the period, strongly influencing later ranch style houses throughout California and later the United States." The Pasadena house was torn down in 1973.

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