About Hedda Lindenberg Sterne

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Hedda Stern
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    OBITUARY FROM NEW YORK TIMES

    "Hedda Sterne, an Artist of Many Styles, Dies at 100"

    Hedda Sterne, an artist whose association with the Abstract Expressionists became fixed forever when she appeared prominently in a now-famous 1951 Life magazine photograph of the movement's leading lights, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 100.

    Her death was announced by Clara Diament Sujo, the director of CDS Gallery in Manhattan.

    Ms. Sterne, who was the last surviving artist from the Life photograph, shared few of the stylistic or philosophical concerns of the Abstract Expressionists, nor did she cast herself in the heroic mold favored by many artists in the movement.

    She did, however, join with 17 pr...

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