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American artist
Robert Cottingham
(born 1935 in
Brooklyn, New York
) is an American artist known for his paintings and prints of urban American landscapes showing building facades, neon signs, movie marquees, railroad heralds and shop fronts.
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Although often considered one of the most important
photorealist
painters, Cottingham rejects the label of being a photorealist. He rather sees himself as a realist painter working in a long tradition of American vernacular scenes in the line of the likes of
Stuart Davis
,
Charles Demuth
,
Edward Hopper
and
Charles Sheeler
.
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[2]
Cottingham regards his works as no mere painterly translations of photographs or reproductions of reality since he often changes the words in his facades to alter the meaning of the subject. His primary interest lies in the subject matter ? the so-called
Americana
.
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Cottingham studied art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and started his career in advertising. After relocating to Los Angeles for work, he began to commit seriously to painting. In 1968, he ended his advertising career and devoted himself full-time to painting. In the late 1960s, he started using photography in his painting practice.
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His first solo show was in 1971 at the
OK Harris Gallery
in New York.
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In 1990, he was elected into the
National Academy of Design
as an Associate Academician, and became a full Academician in 1994. A retrospective of Cottingham's work took place at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum
in 1998.
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