Josephine B. Crane

Josephine Porter Crane (née Josephine Porter Boardman) (November 14, 1873 – July 8, 1972) was an American socialite and patron of the arts, co-founder and original trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and supporter of the Dalton School of New York City.

[3] Her mother was the granddaughter of Joseph Earl Sheffield, a major benefactor of Yale University.

[4] After her husband's death, she moved to New York City, where she was among the founders of the Museum of Modern Art and was elected to the board of trustees in October 1929.

[5] In 1906, she married the American millionaire Winthrop Murray Crane, who was a widow and twenty years her senior.

Together, they were the parents of three children:[1] Crane hosted a weekly literary salon at her apartment at 820 Fifth Avenue, New York City (an 18-room apartment on the fourth floor of the 12 story limestone-clad luxury coop built in 1916 and designed in the neo-Italian Renaissance palazzo style by Starrett & van Vleck)[9] and at the family home on Penzance Point, Woods Hole, Massachusetts where guests included Marianne Moore and William Somerset Maugham.