# Tom Cramer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tom-cramer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:14:59.776Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Carved and painted wood reliefs

## Portrait

![Tom Cramer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Tom_Cramer.jpg)
Thomasjcramer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Cramer.jpg

## About Tom Cramer

Tom Cramer is an American artist based in Portland, Oregon. The public identity material gathered for this page describes him as especially known for intricately carved and painted wood reliefs, with organic and technological influences informing the visual language of his work. He is closely associated with Portland's art community. Collectors may encounter his name across reliefs and other fine-art categories represented in public auction records, including paintings, works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed media, and editions. Those auction classifications are broad and should not be treated as a catalogue of authenticated work. The collected source pack does not provide a birth date, formal movement affiliation, or institution-grade catalogue entry, so this profile avoids assigning them. Identification should therefore rely on the individual object's materials, construction, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and comparison with documented examples.

## Common works and media

The clearest biographical source identifies carved and painted wood reliefs as Cramer's characteristic work. Appraisily's matched auction index also groups records under paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Because these are broad auction classifications, they should be verified against the object's materials, dimensions, signature, inscriptions, and provenance rather than treated as a definitive catalogue of the artist's output.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's collected market data places matched Tom Cramer records across several broad auction categories rather than one narrowly defined segment. For appraisal purposes, the most useful comparisons are works with similar medium, dimensions, date, construction, subject matter, and condition. A carved and painted relief should ordinarily be compared with related reliefs rather than with prints or general decorative-art lots. Signature, inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, restoration, and attribution confidence can also affect comparability. Public results may omit private transactions or contain incomplete reporting, and some prices may include buyer premiums or fees. These records support comparison but do not replace object-level inspection or authentication.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public feeds can be incomplete, so market evidence should be checked against the specific object.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7815446
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cramer
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tom-cramer/