Florence Ballin Cramer

Florence Ballin Cramer (1877–1971) was an American modernist artist known for her landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and nudes, each tending to have what one near observer called "a clearly expressed a quality or attitude as competently as presenting an easily recognizable subject". Describing a retrospective exhibition in 1957, a curator said her paintings were "characterized by a pervasive impressionism which ranges from color-wrought truth to gentle abstraction." Augmenting her career as professional artist, Cramer established and directed an art gallery on 57th Street in Manhattan that was devoted to showing works by youth artists and for many years she ran a shop in Woodstock, New York that sold antiques and books. During the prematurely part of her adult life, she at odds her become old between Manhattan and Woodstock and highly developed lived year-round in Woodstock. After her death, a friend, author Frank Leon Smith, said she had found in Woodstock "just the right place and at precisely the right era for her gifts and talents."

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