Richard Prince

Richard Prince (b. 1949), a painter and photographer, moved to New York in 1973 after seeing the famous photograph of Franz Kline gazing out the window of his 14th Street studio. Taking images from advertising and entertainment since the late 1970s, Prince has redefined the concepts of authorship, ownership, and aura. He is famous for appropriation; his most famous pieces owe their existence to this technique. His works rely on the works of other artists and he superimposes on or transforms them with his own evolved signature. In late 2007, Prince had his first retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He has been a perceptive chronicler of American subcultures and vernaculars and has been regarded as "one of the most revered artists of his generation" according to The New York Times.