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Arthur Jerome Eddy
1859–1920
A Chicago lawyer with a sharp eye for new ideas, he became one of America’s earliest champions of modern art. His writing helped introduce Cubism and Post-Impressionism to U.S. readers at a moment when those movements still felt startlingly new.
3 Audiobooks
Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur"
by Arthur Jerome Eddy
Cubists and Post-Impressionism
by Arthur Jerome Eddy
Recollections and impressions of James A. McNeill Whistler
by Arthur Jerome Eddy
About the author
Born in Flint, Michigan, in 1859, Arthur Jerome Eddy built his professional life as a lawyer in Chicago, but he is best remembered for the unusual path his curiosity took him down. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, including law, economics, travel, and art, bringing an energetic, approachable style to topics that might otherwise have felt remote.
Eddy became an important early collector of modern art in the United States. He was especially notable for supporting adventurous artists before they were widely accepted, and he is often remembered as one of the first American collectors to buy works by figures such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. His interest in the 1913 Armory Show and other modern movements placed him close to the front edge of changing artistic taste in America.
As an author, he is closely linked with Cubists and Post-Impressionism, a book that helped explain bold new European art to American readers. He died in New York City in 1920, leaving behind a reputation not just as a collector, but as an enthusiastic interpreter of modern art for a broader public.