“Dead artists leave two bodies—their own, and a body of work.” —Harriet Shorr
With blunt words, painter Harriet Shorr voiced the concern of loved ones, service organizations and cultural communities in her contribution to an estate planning guide for artists published by the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. It was the 1990s. The culture wars had permanently shifted the public-funding ground out from under a generation of artists, who had to come to terms with not only the new economy and developing new technologies, but with their own mortality.
