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Elaine
Sturtevant

1930 — 2014 · Modern

Elaine Sturtevant: A Life of Replication and Re-evaluation Elaine Frances Sturtevant (1930 – 2014) was an American artist renowned for her conceptual practice of meticulously recreating artworks by other prominent artists. Her work challenged conventional notions of originality, authorship, and the very definition of art …

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Elaine Sturtevant
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Elaine Sturtevant's own colours

Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

← Cool · Shadow Warm · Earth Gold · Light →

Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

0° Red 90° Yellow 180° Cyan 270° Blue saturation →
Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers