About Belle Cramer

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    Belle Klauber Cramer was born on August 11, 1883 in New York City. According to the 1905 census, Belle lived with her parents David and Eliza Klauber on West 88th Street along with her older brother Arthur and her younger brothers Edward and Murray. In 1906, at the age of 22, Belle married German native William Cramer and they established residence in Edinburgh, Scotland where he was a physician specializing in cancer pathology.

    Early in life, Belle trained as a pianist and, after a stint at Columbia’s Teachers College, began her formal art education at the Edinburgh College of Art, where she studied from 1909 to 1915. When the couple and their first son moved to London in 1915, Belle continued her studies both privately and a...

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