1. Elaine Sturtevant achieved recognition for her carefully inexact repetitions of other artists' works.
12 Facts About Elaine Sturtevant
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Elaine Sturtevant earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Iowa, followed by a master's in the field from Teachers College of Columbia University.
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Elaine Sturtevant's earliest known paintings were made in New York in the late 1950s.
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Elaine Sturtevant was close friends with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, both of whom own paintings from this period.
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Elaine Sturtevant initially focused on works by such American artists as Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol.
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Elaine Sturtevant's frustration culminated with a 1973 show at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.
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Elaine Sturtevant mastered painting, sculpture, photography and film in order to produce a full range of copies of the works of her chosen artists.
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In 1991, Elaine Sturtevant presented an entire show consisting of her repetition of Warhol's Flowers series.
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The lecture ends with Elaine Sturtevant screaming obscenities at her hapless studio assistant in the tech booth and storming off the stage.
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Elaine Sturtevant died on May 7,2014, in Paris, where she had been living and working since the early 1990s.
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Elaine Sturtevant had her first her solo exhibition in 1965 at the Bianchini Gallery, in New York.
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On June 4,2011, Elaine Sturtevant received the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 54th Venice Biennale.