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Robert Cottingham – Champagne

Robert Cottingham, Champagne 2009 is a colored Screenprint on wove paper with full margins. Robert Cottingham, Champagne is from the American Signs Portfolio. This print is signed, numbered and dated from the printer’s proof edition of 10, aside from the edition of 100.

Robert Cottingham uses mid-20th-century signs 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

Champagne

Medium

Screenprint

Year

2009

Edition

100

Catalogue Raisonné

NA

Signature

Signed

Size 40 x 39 (in)
102 x 99 (cm)
Price SOLD
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Robert Cottingham, Champagne 2009 is a colored Screenprint on wove paper with full margins. Robert Cottingham, Champagne is from the American Signs Portfolio. This print is signed, numbered and dated from the printer’s proof edition of 10, aside from the edition of 100.

Robert Cottingham, Champagne from the American Signs Portfolio depicts a mid-20th-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.

Robert Cottingham, Champagne

Robert Cottingham is known as a photorealist, but his meticulous paintings and drawings of pre-digital Americana border on abstraction. Cottingham depicts mid-20-century signs, typefaces, manual cameras, railroad boxcars, and mechanical components, 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.

Robert Cottingham, Champagne

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Title

Champagne

Medium

Screenprint

Year

2009

Edition

100

Catalogue Raisonné

NA

Signature

Signed

Size 40 x 39 (in)
102 x 99 (cm)
Price SOLD