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John Quinn (April 14, 1870 in Tiffin, Ohio – July 28, 1924 in Fostoria, Ohio)〔(suchfriends.wordpress.com )〕 was a wealthy second generation Irish-American corporate lawyer in New York City, who for a time was an important patron of major figures of Post-impressionism and literary Modernism, and collector of modern art and original manuscripts. In the 1920s he owned the largest single collection of modern European paintings in the world. ==Biography== Quinn was born in Tiffin, Ohio, to an Irish baker and grocer, James W. Quinn, and Mary Quinlaw Quinn, and grew up in nearby Fostoria, Ohio, where his parents relocated in 1871. His paternal grandparents James and Mary (Madigan) Quinn, natives of County Limerick, Ireland settled in Tiffin in 1851, where the grandfather was a blacksmith by trade. After graduating from the University of Michigan and Georgetown University Law School, followed by a degree in international relations from Harvard University, Quinn became a successful New York lawyer, getting involved in New York’s Tammany Hall politics, but when his candidate didn’t get the nomination at the 1912 Democratic National Convention he became disgusted with the whole system and became an art patron, art collector, and collector of manuscripts. His French adviser for Post-Impressionist art was Henri-Pierre Roche, who later wrote the novel ''Jules et Jim''. Quinn and Roche worked together to develop the famous 1913 Armory Show. Quinn was the principal supporter and purchaser of manuscripts of novelist Joseph Conrad during his lifetime. He met Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1902, and became a major supporter, helping him found the Abbey Theatre. In the 1920s Quinn was a legal defender of the novel ''Ulysses'' by James Joyce, and also defended ''The Waste Land'' by T. S. Eliot. He was also a friend of American poet Ezra Pound. Quinn was a supporter of the Irish nationalist cause and associated with figures such as John Devoy and Roger Casement, though he worked for British Intelligence services before, during, and after World War I. In this role he acted as case officer for, among others, Aleister Crowley, who was an agent provocateur posing as an Irish nationalist in order to infiltrate anti-British groups of Irish and Germans in the United States. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Quinn (collector)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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