Robert Cottingham

Robert Cottingham ( born September 26, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA, lives in Los Angeles, California) is an American contemporary painter, printmaker and an important representative of photorealism. Robert Cottingham is a major American pop artist and the first generation of Photorealists representative.

Life and work

Robert Cottingham studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York until 1963. After his studies he worked for a time as a graphic designer, which would later influence his painting regarding the use of American urban signage in his works.

In the 1960s, inspired by the urban landscape of Southern California, Cottingham began began his career as a painter. He was in the early 1970s, alongside other renowned artists such as Richard Estes and Chuck Close to the most important representatives of its genre. The compositional strength and the intensity of the graphics in his paintings and drawings are also successful in the print media.

Robert Cottingham's paintings are part of important international and public collections, including the Arts Council of Great Britain in London, Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tampa Museum of Art, Tate Gallery in London, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Robert Cottingham currently lives in western Connecticut and in New York, Los Angeles and London. These cities are the sources of inspiration for his photo - realism paintings he called "Urban Landscapes".

Robert Cottingham was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department of realism.

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
  • Documenta Archive (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X
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