Arthur Jerome Eddy

Arthur Jerome Eddy was an American lawyer, author, art collector, and art critic. He was a prominent member of the first generation of American Modern art collectors. 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. After Eddy's death his collection was dispersed, but part of it was re-assembled by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1931, where it formed the core of the Museum's collection of Modern art.- Wikipedia