Biographical Information
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                            1935
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                            Born in Brooklyn, New York
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                            1963
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                            B.F.A.; Pratt Institute; Brooklyn, New York
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                            Selected Exhibitions
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                            2005
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                            Galerie Patrice Trigano; Paris, France
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                            “Tandem Press—Robert Cottingham;” Barbara Krakow Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
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                            2004
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                            “New Still Lifes,” Forum Gallery, New York
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                            2001
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                            “Still Lifes;” Forum Gallery; Los Angeles, California
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                            2000
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                            “Still Lifes;” Forum Gallery, New York
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                            1999
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                            Works on Paper Gallery; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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                            1998
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                            “Eyeing America: Robert Cottingham Prints;” National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C.
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                            1997
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                            “Robert Cottingham—An American Alphabet;” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Ridgefield, Connecticut
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                            “Hollywood Stills: House Portraits by Robert Cottingham,” Long Beach Museum of Art, California
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                            1996
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                            “Robert Cottingham—An American Alphabet,” Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
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                            1994
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                            Harcourts Contemporary; San Francisco, California
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                            “Robert Cottingham;” Triton Museum; Santa Clara, California
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                            Takda Gallery; San Francisco, California
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                            Struve Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
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                            1993
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                            Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
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                            “Robert Cottingham—Rolling Stock Series, Paintings Drawings, Prints;” Central Connecticut State University; New Britain, Connecticut
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                            1992
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                            “Robert Cottingham—Rolling Stock Series;” Butler Institute of American Art; Youngstown, Ohio
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                            1991
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                            Harcourts Contemporary; San Francisco, California
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                            1990
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                            “Robert Cottingham—Rolling Stock Series,” Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
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                            "Three Universities Collect;” Indiana University Art Museum; Bloomington, Indiana
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                            Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York
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                            Roger Ramsay Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
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                            1989
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                            Gimpel and Weitzenhiffer, New York
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                            Barbara Fendrick Gallery; Washington, D.C.
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                            National Invitational Drawing Exhibition; Emporia State University; Emporia, Kansas (traveling exhibition)
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                            Muscarelle Museum of Art; Williamsburg, Massachusetts
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                            “Trains and Planes: The Influence of Locomotion in American Painting,” Sherry French Gallery, New York (traveling exhibition)
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                            Coming of Age: Twenty-One Years of Collecting by the Madison Arts Center;” Madison Arts Center; Madison, Wisconsin
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                            1988
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                            “Facing It: Selections from the Ross Turk Collection;” Midwest Museum of Art; Elkhart, Indiana
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                            Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University; Middletown, Connecticut
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                            Center Gallery; Bucknell University; Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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                            1987
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                            Union Station; Hartford, Connecticut
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                            "In Defense of Sacred Lands;” The Harcus Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
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                            Close Focus: Prints, Drawings and Photographs;” National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C.
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                            1986
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                            “The Detailed Image: Realism Here and Abroad;” Harcourts Contemporary; San Francisco, California
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                            “Interiors and Exteriors: Contemporary Realist Prints;” Yale University Art Gallery; New Haven, Connecticut
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                            “Hollywood: Legend and Reality;” National Museum of American History; Washington, D.C.
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                            Springfield Art Museum, Missouri (traveling retrospective)
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