Chicago Lawyer Arthur Jerome Eddy and His Eclectic Art Collection: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 111, Part 2)

by Vivian Endicott Barnett

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606181122
• ISBN13: 9781606181126
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.9"