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Joseph F. McCrindle
Joseph Feder McCrindle (March 7, 1923 – July 11, 2008) was an American art collector, philanthropist, and founder and editor of Transatlantic Review.
Based in New York and London, McCrindle amassed a distinguished collection that ranged from old master drawings and Italian baroque paintings to pre-Columbian sculptures. During his lifetime, he lent or gave artworks to dozens of institutions including the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.
To fund Transatlantic Review, he established the Henfield Foundation (later renamed the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation), which distributed McCrindle's art collection to about 30 museums after his death. The National Gallery, for example, received an early-20th-century watercolor by John Singer Sargent and an early-1520s drawing by Polidoro da Caravaggio as well as more than 300 other drawings, many of them by lesser-known artists. As a collector, McCrindle looked for bargains and never paid more than $10,000 for any single work. "It's not a plutocrat's collection," George R. Goldner, chairman of drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum, told The New York Times. "He did well because he had a good eye."
McCrindle was born in New York City to Odette Feder, a graduate of Miss Spence's School, and Major John Ronald McCrindle, a British aviator who had served as a Royal Air Force squadron commander during World War I. A year later the couple divorced, and in 1928 Odette Feder married Count Guy du Bourg de Bozas and moved to France, leaving her son—and then his half-brother, Antoine du Bourg—to be raised by her parents, who lived in a Fifth Avenue townhouse designed by Stanford White.
McCrindle's maternal grandparents were Joseph Fuller Feder, a Wall Street financier, and Edith Mosler Feder, daughter of the painter Henry Mosler and granddaughter of Gustave Mosler, who co-founded the Mosler Safe Company. While growing up, McCrindle spent summers in Europe, became fluent in French and began collecting rare books.
He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated from Harvard University in 1944. After two years in the U.S. Army, serving mainly in London as a translator in the Office of Strategic Services, McCrindle earned a degree at Yale Law School and then joined a Wall Street law firm, where he worked for less than a year. He also worked briefly at one London and two New York publishing companies before setting out on his own as a literary agent. His clients included L.P. Hartley and, early in their careers, John McPhee and Philip Roth.
With the aim of giving exposure to short stories that he had been unable to sell, McCrindle founded Transatlantic Review in 1959, reviving the name of the short-lived but influential magazine edited by Ford Maddox Ford in 1924. Published quarterly, first in Rome and then in London and New York, Transatlantic Review presented fiction and poetry by young writers alongside new works by well-known literary figures such as Paul Bowles, Iris Murdoch, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor and John Updike.
TR also ran an annual erotica contest (Diana Athill, Jerry Stahl and D.M. Thomas were three of its winners) and published interviews with theater and film directors including Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. After the magazine's 10th anniversary, McCrindle edited two anthologies, Stories From the Transatlantic Review (1970) and Behind the Scenes: Theater and Film Interviews From the Transatlantic Review (1971), both published by Holt Rinehart and Winston.
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Joseph F. McCrindle
Joseph Feder McCrindle (March 7, 1923 – July 11, 2008) was an American art collector, philanthropist, and founder and editor of Transatlantic Review.
Based in New York and London, McCrindle amassed a distinguished collection that ranged from old master drawings and Italian baroque paintings to pre-Columbian sculptures. During his lifetime, he lent or gave artworks to dozens of institutions including the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.
To fund Transatlantic Review, he established the Henfield Foundation (later renamed the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation), which distributed McCrindle's art collection to about 30 museums after his death. The National Gallery, for example, received an early-20th-century watercolor by John Singer Sargent and an early-1520s drawing by Polidoro da Caravaggio as well as more than 300 other drawings, many of them by lesser-known artists. As a collector, McCrindle looked for bargains and never paid more than $10,000 for any single work. "It's not a plutocrat's collection," George R. Goldner, chairman of drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum, told The New York Times. "He did well because he had a good eye."
McCrindle was born in New York City to Odette Feder, a graduate of Miss Spence's School, and Major John Ronald McCrindle, a British aviator who had served as a Royal Air Force squadron commander during World War I. A year later the couple divorced, and in 1928 Odette Feder married Count Guy du Bourg de Bozas and moved to France, leaving her son—and then his half-brother, Antoine du Bourg—to be raised by her parents, who lived in a Fifth Avenue townhouse designed by Stanford White.
McCrindle's maternal grandparents were Joseph Fuller Feder, a Wall Street financier, and Edith Mosler Feder, daughter of the painter Henry Mosler and granddaughter of Gustave Mosler, who co-founded the Mosler Safe Company. While growing up, McCrindle spent summers in Europe, became fluent in French and began collecting rare books.
He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated from Harvard University in 1944. After two years in the U.S. Army, serving mainly in London as a translator in the Office of Strategic Services, McCrindle earned a degree at Yale Law School and then joined a Wall Street law firm, where he worked for less than a year. He also worked briefly at one London and two New York publishing companies before setting out on his own as a literary agent. His clients included L.P. Hartley and, early in their careers, John McPhee and Philip Roth.
With the aim of giving exposure to short stories that he had been unable to sell, McCrindle founded Transatlantic Review in 1959, reviving the name of the short-lived but influential magazine edited by Ford Maddox Ford in 1924. Published quarterly, first in Rome and then in London and New York, Transatlantic Review presented fiction and poetry by young writers alongside new works by well-known literary figures such as Paul Bowles, Iris Murdoch, Joyce Carol Oates, William Trevor and John Updike.
TR also ran an annual erotica contest (Diana Athill, Jerry Stahl and D.M. Thomas were three of its winners) and published interviews with theater and film directors including Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. After the magazine's 10th anniversary, McCrindle edited two anthologies, Stories From the Transatlantic Review (1970) and Behind the Scenes: Theater and Film Interviews From the Transatlantic Review (1971), both published by Holt Rinehart and Winston.