Assembly of more than thirty American museums expanded set of works from the collections of the literary agent for Joseph MakKrindla

impressive contribution to the American Museum Foundation has made a literary agent MakKrindl Joseph (Joseph McCrindle), who died last summer in New York at the age of 85 years. In his extensive collection, there were approximately 2 200 drawings done by the old masters and artists of XIX - XX centuries, as well as more than 100 paintings and objects of decorative art. All of these works over the past several months, without any noise in the press went to collections of more than 30 museums in the United States.

cost of collection, according to experts, more than 20 million dollars. According to a bequest MakKrindla, another 10 million (in installments of 100 thousand dollars to a million) were transferred to dozens of museums, libraries, universities and orchestras. A similar amount has been remitted by the Fund MakKrindla (McCrindle Foundation), which is sponsoring the museums and various charitable organizations. President of the fund is an old friend, Joseph MakKrindla John Rowe (John Rowe).

The majority of works were handed over Morgan Library and Museum in New York (365 subjects), the National Gallery of Art in Washington (300 subjects), Yale Center for British Art (200 items), as well as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (200 items). More modest in size of the collection go to museums in Philadelphia, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Kansas City, New Orleans and San Francisco. And in one only New York in the number of recipients were Morgan Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Design Cooper-Hewitt, New York Public Library and the New York Historical Society.

Joseph MakKrindl was born in 1923. His mother - a rich socialite lioness Feder Odette (Odette Feder) - was married to Major Ronald MakKrindlom (Ronald McCrindle), military pilots who participated in the First World War. In 1928, she abruptly divorced him and married Count Guy de Bourg de Bozay (Guy du Bourg de Bozas). Odette moved to France and left his son in the care of their parents, who lived in New York on Fifth Avenue. For pocket money, which he received from the grandfather to my grandmother, Joseph still at a young age to buy rare books at auctions. In summer it sent to Europe where he has gained not only knowledge of foreign languages, but also a taste for art.

Joseph MakKrindl studied at Manhattan School of St. Paul and later at Harvard. After graduating from university in 1944, he joined the London office of the Office of Strategic Services in the United States as a translator. Subsequently, he was in law school at Yale University, graduated in 1948, received the degree.

Some time MakKrindl worked on Wall Street, as well as in various newspapers in London and New York. But then he started his own business and became a literary agent. Among his clients were such writers as Philip Roth (Philip Roth) and John McFee (John McPhee). In 1959 he founded the magazine in London, Transatlantic Review, issued once in three months. MakKrindl half admitted that his aim was the promotion of writers, whom he could not sell to publishers. The magazine offered readers the work of famous and not so authors, including John Apdayka (John Updike), Harold Pinter (Harold Pinter), Anthony Burgess (Anthony Burgess), Iris Murdoch (Iris Murdoch), as well as pictures, film and interviews with writers .

After the Transatlantic Review closed in 1977, established a fund MakKrindl Henfield Foundation, which now bears his name. This fund provides grants to organizations related to arts, music and social protection, and also gives an annual prize of prospective students to the creative writes.

Passion Joseph MakKrindla to collecting began in the 1960's and 70's. He often visited with art dealers in London, Paris and Rome, acquiring works for its collection. However, he did it for their own pleasure rather than for investment. Most of all he liked the drawings by old masters. Rhoda Eitel-Porter (Rhoda Eitel-Porter), head of the drawings and prints at the Museum of Morgan, remembers that during a visit to the New York apartment MakKrindla saw him a lot of framed pictures on the shelves, as well as a chest of drawers full of drawings without frames.

In addition to a traveling exhibition in 1991, organized by Princeton University, works from the collection MakKrindla is not never been exhibited together.

Material prepared Onuchin Catherine, AI

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