Emily Hall Tremaine

Emily Hall Tremaine (1908–1987) was a prominent art director and collector. She published Apéritif, a society magazine.

Early life Tremaine was born in Butte, Montana, in 1908.

The Tremaine Collection Hall Tremaine's interest in art began in the 1920s and '30s while she lived in Santa Barbara, California, as she developed friendships with art collectors and curators who were instrumental in shaping her views on modern art. They included Walter and Louise Arensberg, Mildred Barnes, Robert Woods Bliss, Dr. Grace Louise McCann Morley and Arthur Everett Austin Jr.

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 Tremaines began dispersing their collection in 1980. 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. In November 1988 and November 1991 Christie's New York held auctions of the couple's works, funds of which were used to establish the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.

Personal life In the mid-1940s she moved to New York and met and married Burton Tremaine.