Arthur Jerome Eddy

These included 2000 Miles on an Automobile (travelog), Law of Combinations (economics), Tales of a Small Town (short stories), Ganton & Co. (a novel) and The Warning (a play).

Members of the club included Eugene Field, Harriet Monroe, George P. Upton, Potter Palmer, and John J.

"[13] William Le Baron Jenney wrote an article, "A Remarkable Dwelling," about the Eddy House in the May 1906 Inland Architect and News Record.

[20] Her father, the future founder of General Motors, responded: "Margery, how could you, how could you, be so foolish as to risk your life in one of those things.

"[21] His interest in art did not awaken until he saw the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where he was most taken with the work of James McNeill Whistler and Auguste Rodin.

Fascinated by the efforts of these artists, he immediately began his collection of avant-garde art with the purchase of a Brâncuși sculpture and 25 paintings.

"In New York, Eddy purchased 15 of the most radical works on display, including Marcel Duchamp's Portrait of Chess Players (1911) and The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes (1912), Albert Gleizes's Man on a Balcony (1912), and Francis Picabia's Dances at the Spring (1912).

In Chicago, he purchased three additional paintings by the Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, as well as three lithographs by Maurice Denis and four by Édouard Vuillard."

The year 1914 saw the publication of perhaps his most important writing, Cubists and Post-Impressionism,[24] a large portion of which was based on information that Eddy obtained from the artists themselves.

Additionally it was the first adequate account of Kandinsky in America; the artist had been represented by only one painting in the Armory Show the year before.

In his last years of life Eddy shifted the focus of his collecting to the American moderns, including some paintings by artists such as Arthur Dove.

[10] In 1921, Louis Sullivan designed a "family memorial enclosure" with the "Dimensions: ca: 51' (diameter)" in Glenwood Cemetery in Flint Michigan which was not built.

In 1931, his widow and son donated 20 paintings and 3 sculptures to the Art Institute of Chicago to form the Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection.