Joseph F. McCrindle
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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.[1]
To fund Transatlantic Review, he established the Henfield Foundation (later renamed the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation),[2] which distributed McCrindle's art collection to about 30 museums after his death.[3] The National Gallery, for example, received an early-20th-century watercolor by John Singer Sargent[4] and an early-1520s drawing by Polidoro da Caravaggio[5] as well as more than 300 other drawings,[6] 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.[7] "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."