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Creator:
Cramer, Konrad, 1888-1963  Search this
Subject:
Cramer, Florence Ballin  Search this
Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)  Search this
Florence Gallery  Search this
Woodstock Artists Association (Woodstock, N.Y.)  Search this
Type:
Christmas cards
Diaries
Designs
Sketchbooks
Drawings
Photographs
Prints
Sketches
Place of publication, production, or execution:
New York (State)
Physical Description:
8.5 Linear feet
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into 8 series: Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1898-1955 (3 folders; Box 1) Series 2: Correspondence, 1900-1964 (2.2 linear feet; Boxes 1-3, 9) Series 3: Christmas Card Album, 1921-1961 (0.8 linear feet; Box 3) Series 4: Diaries, 1906-1962 (1 linear foot; Box 4) Series 5: Writings, 1897-1962 (0.7 linear feet; Box 5, OV 11) Series 6: Personal Business Records, 1918-1962 (0.3 linear feet; Box 5, OV 10) Series 7: Printed Materials, 1906-1968 (1.5 linear feet; Boxes 6-7, 9, OV 11) Series 8: Photographs, 1906-1960 (0.5 linear feet; Box 7) Series 9: Artwork, 1897-1954 (1 linear foot; Boxes 8-9, OV 10-11)
Access Note / Rights:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Summary:
The papers of painter, printmaker, and photographer Konrad Cramer and his wife, painter and printmaker Florence Ballin Cramer, measure 8.5 linear feet and date from 1897 to 1968. Papers document both artists' personal and professional lives and are especially rich in documentation of the art community of Woodstock, New York, where Florence Ballin first attended art classes in 1906, and where the couple settled in 1911. Records include biographical materials, correspondence, a Christmas card album, diaries, writings, business records, personal financial records, printed materials, photographs, and artwork.
Citation:
Konrad and Florence Ballin Cramer papers, 1897-1968. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
The collection was digitized in 2013 and is available via the Archives of American Art's website. Blank pages, blank versos of photographs, photographs of artwork, duplicates, and routine financial documents have not been scanned. With the exception of rare publications, only the cover, title page, and individual relevant pages have been scanned from published materials.
Materials lent for microfilming are available on 35mm microfilm reels 1027, D170, and D171 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
Funding:
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art
Use Note:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Related Materials:
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reels 1027, D170, and D171) including photographs, diaries, and sketches. Loaned materials were returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Biography Note:
Konrad Cramer was born in Wurtzburg, Germany, in 1888, and studied at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1908 with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutte and Ernest Schurth. After a year in the German army, he returned to Karlsruhe to set up a studio, making frequent trips to Munich, where he was exposed to the experimental artists of the Blaue Reiter group, including Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc.
Language Note:
The records are in English and German.
Provenance:
A portion of the papers in this collection were loaned to the Archives of American Art for microfilming in 1964 by Aileen Cramer and Margot Cramer Taylor, daughters of Florence and Konrad Cramer. While selected diaries, sketches, and photographs were returned to the donors, some, but not all, of the original loan was subsequently donated with additional materials, in 1975.
Digitization Note:
This site provides access to the papers of Konrad and Florence Ballin Cramer in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2017, and total 13,004 images.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Color photography  Search this
Photocollage  Search this
Women artists  Search this
Women painters  Search this
Women printmakers  Search this
Festivals  Search this
Theme:
Diaries  Search this
Photography  Search this
Women  Search this
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)9413
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211611
AAA_collcode_cramkonr
Theme:
Diaries
Photography
Women
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211611