Lot Details
Lot 194
Konrad Cramer American, 1888-1963 Tug Boat (Saugerties Boat)
American, 1888-1963
Tug Boat (Saugerties Boat)
Oil on board
24 x 30 inches
Provenance:
Paradox Gallery, Woodstock, New York
Collection of Bernice Tell, New York since 1989
Prominent in progressive art circles, Konrad Cramer received a classically rigorous art education at the Karlsruhe Academy in his native Germany, tempered by exposure to exhibitions in Munich in the early twentieth century of work by the Blaue Reiter group. After marrying an American art student, Florence Ballin, he immigrated to America in 1911, residing with his wife in New York City. There, he joined with other pioneering American modernists who were exploring abstraction. In the early 1920s, the couple settled in Woodstock, New York, where both became active members of the artists' community. A founding member and first director of the Woodstock Art Association, Cramer blended aspects of European modernism with the imagery of American culture and folk art. Friendly with George Bellows, who lived in Woodstock in the early 1920s, Cramer was among a more avant-garde group of artists there that included Andrew Dasburg and Henry Lee McFee.
The preparatory study for this work is lot 193 in this sale.
Estate of Bernice Tell
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