work Crowninshield remained active in the arts and high society. He often advised the affluent on art investments and helped develop younger artists of the period, including Clara Tice. He built his own art collection as well, including a large assortment of African and modern French art. Crowninshield was widely published outside Vanity Fair, including in Vogue, for which he later served as an editor, and The Century Magazine, where he had been an art critic. According to Sybil Gordon Kantor in her book Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art, Crowninshield along with several others was a founding member trustee. Post-career After his retirement, Crowninshield began to sell most of his private art collection. In 1943, he sold a total of 1019 items, earning a total of $181,747. His collection had included pieces from Impressionist and Modern artists such as Jules Pascin, Manet, Degas, Renoir, and others. Crowninshield died December 28, 1947, in New York at the age of 75. The New York Times credited Crowninshield with developing "café society" in the United States and noted his long editorship at Vanity Fair. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In popular culture The film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) featured Crowninshield played by the author and screenwriter Peter Benchley. Family tree References External links 1872 births 1947 deaths Condé Nast people Crowninshield family American art collectors American male non-fiction writers American magazine editors Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery