Cramer, a native of Louisville, Kentucky and graduate of Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, began his career in advertising, serving as a broadcast supervisor on Lever Brothers and General Foods programs at Ogilvy & Mather in New York City.
While working in New York City, he starting buying prints by 20th-century Modernists, then by the younger artists there who were friends with Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse, and others.
[1] At MOCA alone, he spearheaded art auctions, donated major artworks, and provided funds for a 1997 Ellsworth Kelly retrospective.
In 1994 (the year after Haber's death), Cramer attempted to produce a fictionalized, two-act play about the marriage, entitled The Last Great Dish.
[4] Cramer moved to the east coast in 1997,[5] subsequently came out as gay, and, in 2006, married artist Hubert "Hugh" Bush.