About the Artist
Materials Watercolor on pa
Size 23 × 25 in | 58.4 × 63.5 cm
Rarity Unique
Medium Drawing, Collage or other Work on Paper
Signature Hand-signed by artist, lower right
ROBERT COTTINGHAM
Robert Cottingham is an American painter best known for his Photorealist depictions of cropped commercial signage. Born on September 26, 1935 in Brooklyn, NY, Cottingham studied at Pratt Institute, where he received his BFA in 1963 before starting a five-year career in commercial advertising. Upon moving to Los Angeles Cottingham seriously committed himself to his own painting practice, which eventually subsumed his advertising career by 1968 as the artist rose to prominence along with the Photorealist movement.