Elaine
Sturtevant
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 …
A portrait built from Elaine Sturtevant's own colours
Every 2 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.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
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.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
