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HVVACC Exhibits

Linking Collections, Building Connections

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Florence Ballin Cramer
Self-Portrait, 1906
Oil on pressed board
16 x 12 in.
WAAM; gift of Aileen B. Cramer
1985-01-02
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Florence Ballin Cramer
St. Catherine, n.d.
Collage
10 x 8 in.
WAAM; Estate of Nan Mason
1982-05-08
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Florence Ballin Cramer
Red House, ca. 1940
Oil on hardboard
24 x 30 in.
WAAM; gift of Aileen B. Cramer and Margot Cramer Taylor
1973-03-04

An equal player in this case study of artistic community is Konrad Cramer’s wife, American painter Florence Ballin, who studied at the Woodstock branch of the Art Students League under landscape painter Birge Harrison. While her husband Konrad experimented with abstract painting and novel photographic techniques, Florence worked in the American regionalist traditions of realism and plein-air painting. Her collage of St. Catherine imitates early Christian mosaics.