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Robert Cottingham

Robert Cottingham (Born 1935) is active/lives in Connecticut, New York.  Robert Cottingham is known for Super real facades, mechanisms, letterforms, photography.

Robert Cottingham lives and works on an eighteenth century New England farm, but the subject matter he paints is strictly urban.  Tattoo parlors, seamy bar fronts, five-and-dime stores, trashy movie marquees, or the advertising on a pancake house are all the urban symbols he utilizes to construct his complex paintings. He ferrets out the architectural details, symbols, and letter fragments of facades from the 1940s and '50s, giving us a glimpse of a true American folk art; garish, trite, yet somehow endearing.

Cottingham finds more than just the materials of a sign fascinating. "Commercial signs are amazing" he says. "Here are these elaborate, monumental structures designed solely to tell you that this is where you can buy a hamburger or a pack of cigarettes.  You can see these signs as hilarious or pathetic. All that effort, all the pomposity just to sell you something and yet they are an heroic attempt by someone to leave his mark."  Cottingham doe   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9277 characters.]  Artist bio

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