April 14, 2022 Helene Cramer, Harry Saier, Jim Zampini, A Naturalist's Book of Wildflowers by Laura Martin, and Kathleen Drew-Baker

The Daily Gardener · Apr 14, 2022 · 21m

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1844 Birth of Helene Cramer, German landscape and flower painter.

Helen and her sister Molly were both painters in Hamburg, Germany. Their father, Cesar, disapproved of them as painters, so the two women didn't start painting until middle age. (Helen was 38 when she first picked up a brush.)

Helen and Molly exhibited their art throughout Germany and at the 1883 World's Fair in Chicago. Most folks say that their…