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'''Harold Stanley Ede''' (7 April 1895 – 15 March 1990), also known as '''Jim Ede''', was a British collector of art and friend to artists.<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Jim Ede<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|03|07|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = Penarth, Wales<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|03|15|1895|03|07|df=y}}<br />
| known_for = Art collecting<br />
| spouse = Helen Schlapp<br />
}}<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
[[File:KettlesYard.jpg|thumb|[[Kettle's Yard]], Cambridge]]<br />
Jim Ede was born in [[Penarth]], Wales, the son of solicitor Edward Hornby Ede and Mildred, a teacher.<br />
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Ede studied painting under [[Stanhope Forbes]] at Newlyn Art School between 1912 and 1914. He was commissioned in September 1914<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 28910|date=22 September 1914 |page=7485}}</ref> during the [[First World War]], serving with the [[South Wales Borderers]] and the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]]. He relinquished his commission in consequence of ill health, and was granted the rank of captain, 29 July 1919.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 31761|date=30 January 1920|page=1269}}</ref><br />
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After the war, he continued his studies at the [[Slade School of Art]]. In 1921, Ede became assistant curator at the [[National Gallery of British Art]] (later the [[Tate Gallery]]) in London whilst continuing to study part-time at the Slade. Shortly after, he married Helen Schlapp whom he had met in Edinburgh. Whilst working at the Tate, he tried to promote the work of contemporary artists, including [[Picasso]] and [[Piet Mondrian|Mondrian]]. However, he was often thwarted by the more conservative attitudes of the gallery directors. During his time at the Tate, Ede formed numerous friendships with [[avant-garde]] artists of the day. In the process, he acquired many works of art that were largely under-appreciated at the time. In particular, he secured much of the work of [[Henri Gaudier-Brzeska]] from the estate of [[Sophie Brzeska]]. The collection included numerous letters sent between Henri and Sophie, and Ede used these as the basis for his book ''Savage Messiah'' on the life and work of Gaudier-Brzeska, which in turn became the basis of [[Ken Russell]]'s [[Savage Messiah (1972 film)|film of the same name]].<br />
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==Middle years==<br />
In 1936, Ede tired of fighting the establishment at the Tate and left to live in [[Morocco]], building a house outside [[Tangiers]]. Somewhat ahead of his time, he adopted a [[minimalism|minimalist]] style of interior design advocating plain white-washed walls and the minimum of furniture required to complete a room. For the next twenty years, he led an itinerant life, writing, broadcasting and lecturing in Europe and America, whilst keeping the house in Morocco as a base.<br />
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==Artistic legacy==<br />
[[File:Jim Ede memorial stone at St Peter's church, Cambridge.jpg|thumb|Ede's memorial stone in [[St Peter's Church, Cambridge]]]]<br />
Returning to [[England]] in 1956, Ede converted four cottages in [[Cambridge]] as a place to live and display his [[art collection]]. It was part of his philosophy that art should be shared in a relaxed environment; to this end he would hold 'open house', giving personal tours of the collection to students from the [[University of Cambridge]] over afternoon tea. Students could also borrow paintings from his collection to hang in their rooms during term-time. In 1966, Ede gave the house and collection to the university, establishing [[Kettle's Yard]] art gallery.<br />
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Ede continued to live at Kettle's Yard until 1973, and then moved to Edinburgh where he lived out his retirement.<br />
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== Publications ==<br />
* ''Savage Messiah'', H.S. Ede, Heinemann (1931) — Biography of the sculptor [[Henri Gaudier-Brzeska]]. Reprinted, Kettle's Yard Gallery (1971), {{ISBN|0-900406-15-1}}.<br />
*''Savage Messiah: a biography of the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska''; with new texts by Sebastiano Barassi, Evelyn Silber and Jon Wood. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2011 {{ISBN|1-905462-34-4}} <br />
* ''A Way of Life'', H. S. Ede, Kettle's Yard Gallery, {{ISBN|0-907074-57-X}}. Guide to Kettle's Yard and its collection.<br />
* ''Kettle's Yard and its Artists'', ed. Michael Harrison, Cambridge 2009 {{ISBN|978-1-904561-33-0}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*''[[Savage Messiah (1972 film)|Savage Messiah]]''<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/collection/recollection/timeline/ Jim Ede's timeline on the Kettle Yard website]<br />
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