Emily Hall Tremaine (1908–1987) was a prominent art director and collector.
They included Walter and Louise Arensberg, Mildred Barnes, Robert Woods Bliss, Dr. Grace Louise McCann Morley and Arthur Everett Austin Jr.[5] The Tremaine collection, which began with her purchase of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie in 1944 shortly after it left the artist's studio comprises more than 400 works by European and American artists, ranging from Braque, Picasso and Klee to such contemporary Americans as Michael Heizer, Neil Jenney and Robert Irwin.
A major exhibition of some 150 objects appeared in 1984 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.
The 1958 painting Three Flags by Johns was purchased by the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1981 for the record price at the time of $1 million.
They document the development of Tremaine's collection of modernist, pop and contemporary art.