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Robert Cottingham – Art (Red)
Robert Cottingham, Art (Red) 1992 is a colored Screenprint on wove paper with full margins. Robert Cottingham, Art (Red) is signed and numbered from the limited edition of 60.
Robert Cottingham, Art (Red) depicts mid-20-century sign or what he has called “tools of the Everyman,” in various dynamic compositions with intensified color and light. The artist has described his fascination with signs as originating from trips to Times Square as a child: “I think that’s when the seed was planted, when I saw the kind of activity going on above the ground level.” Obsessed with the precise geometry of his subjects, Cottingham’s process incorporates a series of steps that can include sketches, photographs, shapes mapped onto grids, and model construction. His crisp, often-monumental canvases celebrate and accentuate the forms of his subjects while remaining devoid of nostalgia. He lists Franz Kline, Edward Hopper, and the New Realists among his influences.
| Title | Art (Red) |
|---|---|
| Medium | Screenprint |
| Year | 1992 |
| Edition | 60 |
| Catalogue Raisonné | NA |
| Signature | Signed |
| Size | 46 x 45.5 (in) 117 x 115.75 (cm) |
| Price | SOLD |
Category: Robert Cottingham
Description
Robert Cottingham, Art (Red) 1992 is a colored Screenprint on wove paper with full margins. Robert Cottingham, Art (Red) is signed and numbered from the limited edition of 60.
Robert Cottingham is an American painter best known for his Photorealist depictions of cropped commercial signage. Born on September 26, 1935 in Brooklyn, NY, Cottingham studied at Pratt Institute, where he received his BFA in 1963 before starting a five-year career in commercial advertising. Upon moving to Los Angeles Cottingham seriously committed himself to his own painting practice, which eventually subsumed his advertising career by 1968 as the artist rose to prominence along with the Photorealist movement. Notably—though Cottingham is considered among the 13 most prominent Photorealists of the latter half of the 20th century
Robert Cottingham, Art (Red) depicts mid-20-century sign or what he has called “tools of the Everyman,” in various dynamic compositions with intensified color and light. The artist has described his fascination with signs as originating from trips to Times Square as a child: “I think that’s when the seed was planted, when I saw the kind of activity going on above the ground level.” Obsessed with the precise geometry of his subjects, Cottingham’s process incorporates a series of steps that can include sketches, photographs, shapes mapped onto grids, and model construction. His crisp, often-monumental canvases celebrate and accentuate the forms of his subjects while remaining devoid of nostalgia. He lists Franz Kline, Edward Hopper, and the New Realists among his influences.
Cottingham views his own work as part of the lineage of vernacular Americana painters, including the likes of Stuart Davisand Edward Hopper. His work can be found among the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among others.
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Additional information
| Title | Art (Red) |
|---|---|
| Medium | Screenprint |
| Year | 1992 |
| Edition | 60 |
| Catalogue Raisonné | NA |
| Signature | Signed |
| Size | 46 x 45.5 (in) 117 x 115.75 (cm) |
| Price | SOLD |
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