DOUGLAS CRAMER. WARHOL AND THE LOVE BOAT

He also came to know Warhol during this period. Cramer wanted Warhol to do The Love Boat, a guest-star-driven romantic comedy series set on a luxurious cruise ship.“He agreed he’d come do Love Boat if he could help choose the 1,000th guest star,” Cramer says. “We commissioned him to do a portrait of that star and I agreed to buy two and have Aaron Spelling buy two.”Eventually, Warhol did two portraits each of Cramer and Candy Spelling (Aaron’s wife), plus one of the show’s 1,000th guest star, Lana Turner.When Cramer received his two portraits, he found them too dark and asked Warhol to lighten them up. The artist did and that was that, Cramer thought. But about five years ago, he learned Warhol did a total of nine portraits of him while working to get it right. For its current show, CAM found eight of those portraits, plus seven Warhol drawings of Cramer.

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