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About Louise Crane
- Louise Crane (November 11, 1913 – October 20, 1997), a prominent American philanthropist.
- Crane was a friend to some of New York City’s leading literary figures, including Tennessee Williams and Marianne Moore.
- Crane's father was Winthrop Murray Crane, an American millionaire and former governor of Massachusetts.
- Her mother was Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) co-founder Josephine Porter Boardman.
- Louise smoothly moved into the role of patron of the arts.
- She was a prominent supporter of jazz and orchestral music, initiating a series of "coffee concerts" at MoMA and commissioning a vocal and orchestral work by Lukas Foss.
- She represented musicians, including Mary Lou Williams.
- Crane collaborated also with her mother in sponsoring musical works.Crane met Elizabeth Bishop while classmates together at Vassar in 1930.
- The pair traveled extensively in Europe and bought a house together in 1937 in Key West, Florida.
- While Bishop lived in Key West, Crane occasionally returned to New York.
- Crane developed a passionate interest in Billie Holiday in 1941. Crane published Ibérica, a Spanish-language review, with her partner, Victoria Kent, from 1954 to 1974.
- Ibérica featured news for the expatriate Spanish community in the United States.
- Kent was a prominent member of the Spanish Republican party, opposed to Franco.
- Many prominent writers, including Salvador Madariaga, contributed to Ibérica.
- Following her mother's death in 1972, Crane and Kent lived together in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and Redding, Connecticut.
- Crane was the executor of Marianne Moore's estate after her death in 1972. Crane lived for years in an 18-room apartment on the fourth floor of the 820 Fifth Avenue building, a luxury cooperative in Manhattan, New York City.
- Located at the northeast corner of East 63rd Street on the Upper East Side, the 12 story limestone-clad was designed in the neo-Italian Renaissance palazzo style by Starrett & van Vleck, and was built by Fred T.
- Ley in 1916.
- The fourth floor is one of only a few units in the building which have changed hands multiple times in the last 10 or 20 years.
- After Crane’s death in 1997, the apartment was sold to Tommy Hilfiger for around $10,000,000.Crane and Kent are buried alongside each other at Umpawaug Cemetery, Redding, Connecticut.
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