Robert William Cottingham

Tempat: Brooklyn

Yg dibawa lahir: 1935

Biografi:

Robert Cottingham is an American painter born in 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. He studied advertising and graphic design at Pratt Institute in New York from 1959 to 1963. He is known for his paintings and prints of urban American landscapes, particularly his depictions of urban signs and architectural details. Cottingham's works often feature cropped commercial signage and are characterized by their photorealistic style. He is considered one of the most important photorealist painters, although he rejects the label of being a photorealist and rather sees himself as a realist painter working in a long tradition of American vernacular scenes. Cottingham's first solo show was in 1971 at the OK Harris Gallery in New York. 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.