Richard Pettibone
1938–2024
Introduction
Richard Pettibone (b.January 5, 1938, Alhambra, California – d. August 19, 2024, Cobleskill, New York) was an American artist. He was known for duplicating in miniature noted contemporary artworks. He copied paintings, including those by Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein and sculptures including Warhol's Brillo boxes and Duchamp's readymades. The FLAG Art Foundation describes Pettibone's style as Appropriation Art. Pettibone attended the Otis Art Institute. His first wife was fellow artist Shirley Pettibone. That marriage ended in divorce.
Several of his miniature reproductions are in the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Wikidata identifier
Q20825678
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Introduction
Painter was first noted from the late 1960s for his copies of contemporary works by Warhol, Stella, and others. He was interested in Ezra Pound, and copied his book covers for a series of works in the 1990s. Pettibone also made Photorealist paintings during the 1970s.
Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, conceptual artist, installation artist, painter, sculptor
ULAN identifier
500106744
Names
Richard Pettibone, Richard H. Pettibone
Information from the Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), made available under the ODC Attribution License. Accessed May 10, 2025.