Robert Cottingham

Robert Cottingham (born 1935 in Brooklyn, New York) is considered to be one of most important original photorealist painters.[1] Cottingham's work focuses on items associated as Americana. He studied art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. His first solo show was in 1971 at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York.[2] A retrospective of Cottingham's work took place at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1998.

There is a painting ("Bacon and Eggs") by this painter in the Boca Raton Museum of Art, in Florida. There was a special exhibit of his "Star Series" paintings in the Boca Raton Florida Art Museum in 2010.

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^ Photorealism by Louis K. Meisel. Abradale/Abrams, New York, NY, (1989).