Robert Cottingham

Biographical Information

1935 Born in Brooklyn, New York
1963 B.F.A.; Pratt Institute; Brooklyn, New York

Selected Exhibitions

2005 Galerie Patrice Trigano; Paris, France
“Tandem Press—Robert Cottingham;” Barbara Krakow Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
2004 “New Still Lifes,” Forum Gallery, New York
2001 “Still Lifes;” Forum Gallery; Los Angeles, California
2000 “Still Lifes;” Forum Gallery, New York
1999 Works on Paper Gallery; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998 “Eyeing America: Robert Cottingham Prints;” National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C.
1997 “Robert Cottingham—An American Alphabet;” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Ridgefield, Connecticut
“Hollywood Stills: House Portraits by Robert Cottingham,” Long Beach Museum of Art, California
1996 “Robert Cottingham—An American Alphabet,” Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
1994 Harcourts Contemporary; San Francisco, California
“Robert Cottingham;” Triton Museum; Santa Clara, California
Takda Gallery; San Francisco, California
Struve Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1993 Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
“Robert Cottingham—Rolling Stock Series, Paintings Drawings, Prints;” Central Connecticut State University; New Britain, Connecticut
1992 “Robert Cottingham—Rolling Stock Series;” Butler Institute of American Art; Youngstown, Ohio
1991 Harcourts Contemporary; San Francisco, California
1990 “Robert Cottingham—Rolling Stock Series,” Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
"Three Universities Collect;” Indiana University Art Museum; Bloomington, Indiana
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York
Roger Ramsay Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1989 Gimpel and Weitzenhiffer, New York
Barbara Fendrick Gallery; Washington, D.C.
National Invitational Drawing Exhibition; Emporia State University; Emporia, Kansas (traveling exhibition)
Muscarelle Museum of Art; Williamsburg, Massachusetts
“Trains and Planes: The Influence of Locomotion in American Painting,” Sherry French Gallery, New York (traveling exhibition)
Coming of Age: Twenty-One Years of Collecting by the Madison Arts Center;” Madison Arts Center; Madison, Wisconsin
1988 “Facing It: Selections from the Ross Turk Collection;” Midwest Museum of Art; Elkhart, Indiana
Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University; Middletown, Connecticut
Center Gallery; Bucknell University; Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
1987 Union Station; Hartford, Connecticut
"In Defense of Sacred Lands;” The Harcus Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
Close Focus: Prints, Drawings and Photographs;” National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C.
1986 “The Detailed Image: Realism Here and Abroad;” Harcourts Contemporary; San Francisco, California
“Interiors and Exteriors: Contemporary Realist Prints;” Yale University Art Gallery; New Haven, Connecticut
“Hollywood: Legend and Reality;” National Museum of American History; Washington, D.C.
Springfield Art Museum, Missouri (traveling retrospective)