Eric Ian Spoutz

Eric Ian Spoutz (born August 3, 1983) is an American art dealer.
He has been responsible for placing works of art into the permanent collections of the the Smithsonian Institution's , the , the Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections Division, the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Library and Archives), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the George Washington University, the Children's Hospital Boston, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. In 2007, he was contracted by the to complete the archival project of the assembly of Ian Hornak's personal effects and papers for the museum's permanent collection .
Among the artist's that Spoutz has represented and placed works of art into the permanent collections of museums are Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, Claes Oldenburg, Fairfield Porter, Jane Freilicher, George Rickey, Tom Blackwell, Richard Mclean, Howard Kanovitz, Charles Bell, Lowell Nesbitt, Josef Levi, John Kacere, Otto Duecker, Lazslo Dus, Julian Stanczak, Heinz Edelmann, Yaacov Agam, Jean Pierre Yvaral and Victor Vasarely.
In 2003 he opened the Eric I. Spoutz Gallery located in the Fisher Building in Detroit, Michigan. The gallery represented a stable of many of the founding Photorealist and Hyperrealist artist's. He curated "Lowell Nesbitt: A Retrospective" which was the first, major retrospective exhibition of realist painter, Lowell Nesbitt's work since the artist's death in 1993. Although the Eric I. Spoutz Gallery closed in 2006, Spoutz has continued his career as a private art dealer and a museum and gallery exhibition curator.
In 2010, Malcolm Rogers awarded Spoutz a lifetime status as a member of the Denman Waldo Ross Society at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Life and career
Eric Ian Spoutz was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan to parents of Czechoslovakian and Luxembourgian descent. When he was 16, he worked as a salesman for his Uncle, Ian Hornak and upon Hornak's death in 2002, Spoutz was appointed as the executor of his estate. Under Spoutz's direction in 2003, the Ian Hornak Foundation was created. In 2011, he was named as the co-curator of the travelling museum exhibition, "Transparent Barricades: Ian Hornak, A Retrospective" scheduled to be hosted by the Forest Lawn Museum in 2012, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fine Arts Program) in the Eccles Building in 2012-13 and the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in 2013. In addition to having lived in the Midwest, he has also lived and worked in Palm Beach, Florida, Dallas, Texas and New York City.

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