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Robert Cottingham was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied art first at the Brooklyn Pratt Institute and later at the Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena. His early career as a graphic designer led to an interest in signage and lettering, while his admiration for another New York artist Edward Hopper influenced his use of light and shade to create mood. He is one of the most important photorealist painters, a style which developed during the 1960s, having assimilated photography into his paintings. He is particularly known for works depicting urban America, including signs, storefronts and buildings. Cottingham uses his camera as a sketch book and photographs of his subjects as a base for his art, expanding on the images rather than merely replicating them. For him the letters and numbers of commercial advertisements and signs represent a visual language illustrating the American way of life. Everyday images are transformed by the artist, using a grid method in which he projects a photographic image onto paper, creating a drawing to determine the proportion and size most suited to the image. This is then followed up by paintings in watercolor or gouache and sometimes prints. Often he will produce several re-workings of the original image in different media including lithograph and silk screen. Robert Cottingham was elected to the National Academy of Design, first as an associate in 1990, then as a full Academician in 1994. His works can be found in every important gallery in America and a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Smithsonianin 1998. More recently his work has derived from the components in machines such as cameras and typewriters, using paper models to determine the objects' geographic angles. In 2012 he completed a series of lithographs depicting ‘An American Alphabet’ and featuring individual letters of the alphabet taken from commercial signs. Read Less

Robert Cottingham

Hi, 2009

Name: Hi, 2009
Brand: Robert Cottingham
SKU: 12103

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Silkscreen

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Silkscreen on 290 gram archival Coventry Paper - From the American Signs portfolio - -Hand Signed Nu (...) Show More

Inventory 12103

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ARTWORKS BY ROBERT COTTINGHAM

Robert Cottingham

The Letter N, 2001

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter X, 2001

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

USD 1,100

Robert Cottingham

The Letter T, 2001

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

USD 1,100

Robert Cottingham

The Letter M, 2001

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

USD 1,100

Robert Cottingham

The Letter W, 2001

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Lithograph

USD 1,100

Robert Cottingham

The Letter V, 2001

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

USD 1,100

Robert Cottingham

Hi, 2009

Limited Edition Print

Silkscreen

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter P, 2001

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

USD 1,100

Robert Cottingham

Star, 2009

Limited Edition Print

Silkscreen

USD 6,000

Robert Cottingham

American Hi-Fi, 2009

Limited Edition Print

Silkscreen

USD 7,200

Robert Cottingham

Empire (Vertical), 2012

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Lithograph

USD 1,200

Robert Cottingham

Rialto, 2009

Limited Edition Print

Silkscreen

USD 4,850

Robert Cottingham

Nite, 2009

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Silkscreen

USD 4,850

Robert Cottingham

M, 2009

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Silkscreen

USD 4,850

Robert Cottingham

Hot, 2009

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Silkscreen

USD 4,850

Robert Cottingham

Fox, 2009

Limited Edition Print

Silkscreen

USD 4,850

Robert Cottingham

Switzerland Everybody´s Bookshop, 1975

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

EUR 1,340

Robert Cottingham

Union Pacific Railraod, 1987

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Mixed Media

USD 30,000

Robert Cottingham

Reading Lines, 1987

Painting

Mixed Media

USD 25,000

Robert Cottingham

B & O, 1987

Painting

Mixed Media

USD 25,000

Robert Cottingham

PRR Railroad, 1987

Painting

Mixed Media

USD 25,000

Robert Cottingham

Santa Fe, 1987

Painting

Mixed Media

USD 35,000

Robert Cottingham

Barber Shop, 1989

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

USD 6,500

Robert Cottingham

American Signs, 2009

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

USD 17,500

Robert Cottingham

The Letter G, 2001

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter H, 2001

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter I, 2001

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter K, 2001

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter L, 2001

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter Q, 2001

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter F, 2001

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Lithograph

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter E, 2001

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Lithograph

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The Letter D, 2001

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter B, 2001

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Lithograph

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Robert Cottingham

The Letter A, 2001

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

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Robert Cottingham

Champaign-Drinks, 2009

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Screen-print

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Robert Cottingham

Blues, 2009

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Robert Cottingham

Untitled V (Champs Watertower), 2005

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Mixed Media

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Robert Cottingham

Barrera-Rosa's, 1986

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Linocut

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Robert Cottingham

Untitled I (Albany Ice), 2005

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Robert Cottingham

Untitled II (Hotel), 2005

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Robert Cottingham

Untitled III (Coca-Cola), 2005

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C-Print

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Robert Cottingham

Untitled IV (Tower), 2005

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Robert Cottingham

Untitled VI (Sandwich), 2005

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Robert Cottingham

Untitled VII (Santa Fe Hotel), 2005

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C-Print

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Robert Cottingham

Untitled_VIII (The Graduate), 2005

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Mixed Media

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