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 important exponent of photorealism . Robert Cottingham is a major American pop artist and representative of the first generation of photo realists.
Life
Robert Cottingham studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York until 1963. After completing his studies, he worked for a time as a graphic designer , which would later influence his painting with regard to the use of American urban signage in his work.
In the 1960s, inspired by the urban landscape of Southern California, Cottingham began his career as a painter. In the early 1970s he was one of the most important representatives of his genre , along with other renowned artists such as Richard Estes and Chuck Close . The compositional power and the intensity of the graphics in his paintings and drawings are also successful in the print media.
Robert Cottingham's pictures are part of important international and public collections, including the Art Council of Great Britain in London , Art Institute of Chicago , Baltimore Museum of Art , Birmingham Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh , Cincinnati Art Museum , Cleveland Museum of Art , Delaware Art Museum , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art in New York, High Museum of Art in Atlanta , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC , Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga , La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 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 in New Haven, Connecticut .
Robert Cottingham currently resides in western Connecticut and in New York, Los Angeles and London. These cities are the sources of inspiration for his photo-realistic pictures, which he calls "Urban Landscapes".
Robert Cottingham participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Realism department .
In 1994 Cottingham was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design .
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "C" / Cottingham, Robert, NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 17, 2015)
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cottingham, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter and printmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York, USA |