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Elaine Frances (Horan) Sturtevant

Elaine Frances (Horan) Sturtevant (1926 - 2014) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York / France.  Elaine Sturtevant is known for Appropriation art, pop art painting and sculpture.

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 appropriation art: the movement, which flourished in the 1980s and afterward, that makes new artworks by reproducing old ones. But with characteristic bluntness, she disdained the term, preferring to call her working method "repetition."

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