Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy

1. Commissioned by Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859–1920), Chicago, 1894; by descent to his wife, Lucy “Lulu” Crapo Orrell Eddy (1863–1931), and son, Jerome Orrell Eddy (1891–1951), Chicago, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition, Jan. 25–Mar. 5, 1904, cat. 31, as An Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown.
• Boston, Copley Hall, <em>Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler: Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Drawings</em>, Feb. 1904, cat. 18, as <em>An Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown</em> (organized by the Copley Society).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Oct. 22–Dec. 1, 1907, cat. 435, as Portrait of a Gentleman.
• The Arts Club of Chicago, "Loan Portrait” Exhibition, Dec. 7–21, 1918, cat. 36, as Mr. Arthur J. Eddy.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the Late Arthur Jerome Eddy, Sept. 19–Oct. 22, 1922, cat. 66, as Arthur J. Eddy (Portrait).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Dec. 22, 1931–Jan. 17, 1932, cat 19 (ill.), as Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Jan. 14–Feb. 25, 1954, cat. 119 (ill.), as Arthur Jerome Eddy; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 25–May 23, 1954.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
• Art Institute of Chicago, James McNeill Whistler, Jan. 13–Feb. 25, 1968, cat. 41, as Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur J. Eddy (Arthur Jerome Eddy); Utica, NY, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Mar. 17–Apr. 28, 1968.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Whistler: Prints and Paintings, May–Aug. 31, 1979, no cat.
• Atlanta, High Museum of Art, After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting, Nov. 15, 2003–Feb. 8, 2004, cat. 10 (ill.); Detroit Institute of Art, Mar. 6–May 30, 2004 (Detroit only).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Whistler's Mother: An American Icon Returns to Chicago, Mar. 4–May 21, 2017, no cat.

• H. Monroe, “Chicago Letter,” The Critic: A Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts 22, no. 671 (Dec. 29, 1894): 450.
• “Days with Whistler in His Den, Arthur J. Eddy Talks of the Artist to the Antiquarians,” The Chicago Tribune, Mar. 26, 1895, 9.
• “Chicago’s Only ‘Whistler,’” The Chicago Tribune, Dec. 14, 1902, 58.
• “Pennsylvania Art Show: Academy Exhibit Includes Many Whistler Canvases,” The New York Times, January 24, 1904, 5, as An Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown.
• Copley Society, <em>Loan Collection [of] Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler</em>, exh. cat. (Copley Society, 1904), 4, cat. 18, as <em>An Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown</em>.
• Frederick W. Coburn, “The Whistler Memorial Exhibition,” Brush and Pencil 13, no. 6 (Mar. 1904): 438.
• Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Works of James McNeill Whistler (Moffat, Yard and Company, 1907), 157, no. 18, as An Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown.
• E. R. Pennell and J. Pennell, The Whistler Journal (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1921), viii, opposite 240 (ill.), as Arthur J. Eddy.
• “A Chicago Gift,” The Arts Digest (Dec. 15, 1931): 10 (ill.), as Arthur J. Eddy and Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy.
• Carter H. Harrison, “Big Business Lawyer of Rebel Taste,” Chicago ILL Post, Dec. 29, 1931.
• “Twenty Modern Paintings Given to Chicago Museums,” Detroit Michigan News, Dec. 27, 1931.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago: Report for the Year 1931 (1931): 17 (ill.), 37, as Arthur Jerome Eddy.

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