Elaine Frances (Horan) Sturtevant - Artist Info

About Elaine Frances (Horan) Sturtevant

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    Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist.

    Elaine Sturtevant, Who Borrowed Others' Work Artfully, Is Dead at 89
    By MARGALIT FOX
    MAY 16, 2014

    Elaine Sturtevant, an American Conceptual artist whose work resembled that of Andy Warhol — and Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg and Marcel Duchamp and Jasper Johns and Keith Haring and a spate of other emblematic figures from the annals of contemporary art — died on May 7 in Paris. She was 89.

    Her death was announced by her gallery, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, in Paris, where she had made her home since the early 1990s.

    Ms. Sturtevant, known professionally simply as Sturtevant, was no forger. She was sometimes called the mother of appropriatio...

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