Background
Her mother was Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) co-founder Josephine Porter Boardman.
Her mother was Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) co-founder Josephine Porter Boardman.
Vassar College.
Crane"s father was Winthrop Murray Crane, an American millionaire and former governor of Massachusetts. 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 even worked representing musicians, including Mary Lou Williams.
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 New York
Crane developed a passionate interest in Billie Holiday in 1941. Ibérica featured news for Spanish people exiled in the United States.
Many prominent writers, including Salvador Madariaga, contributed to Ibérica.
Louise Crane and her mother were sponsors of Virgil Thomson"s opera Four Saints in Three Acts, among other works. Crane was the executor of Marianne Moore"s estate after her death in 1972.
Kent was a prominent member of the Spanish Republican party, opposed to Franco.