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Everybody`s BookShop,
1975
Robert Cottingham
Print : lithography
58.4 x 46 cm 23 x 18.1 inch
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Hand-signed by artist
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58.4 x 46 cm 23 x 18.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: Switzerland
This color lithograph from 1975 presents a powerful urban streetscape by Robert Cottingham, focusing on layered shop signage and bold typography drawn from the American city environment.
Hand-signed and dated by Robert Cottingham in pencil at the lower right, as well as numbered in pencil, and titled in pencil at the lower center.
The composition centers on the storefront signs “Everybody's Bookshop" and “Everybody's Books," rendered in dramatic perspective and high contrast. Strong shadows, cropped angles, and overlapping planes create a sense of visual tension and architectural depth.
Robert Cottingham (b. 1935, Brooklyn) is a celebrated American artist known for his photo-realist depictions of urban signage, architecture, and typography. After studying advertising and graphic design at the Pratt Institute, he worked as an art director in New York and Los Angeles. Passionate about art, he painted daily after work, eventually becoming a leading figure in the Photo-Realism movement.
Printed by Landfall Press, Inc. and published by Société Suisse des Beaux-Arts.
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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.
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.
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.
His first solo show was in 1971 at the O.K. 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.
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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.
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.
His first solo show was in 1971 at the O.K. 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.
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