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ROBERT COTTINGHAM (B. 1935)
Barrera Rosa's
titled 'Barrera Rosa's' (lower left); signed and dated 'COTTINGHAM 1983' (lower right)
acrylic on paper
image: 13 ¼ x 37 ¼ in. (33.7 x 94.6 cm.)
sheet: 19 ⅛ x 39 in. (48.6 x 99 cm.)
Painted in 1983.
Provenance
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
L. Meisel, Photorealism since 1980, New York, 1993, p. 158.
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Robert Cottingham's Barrera Rosa, painted in 1983,depicts a row of various street signs, typefaces and mechanical components from mid-20th century urban life. Best-known as a photorealist painter, Cottingham dubbed these signs and texts as “tools of the everyman,” and ascribed his fascination with street signs to his childhood trips to Times Square in New York. The Hopperesque storefront theme of Barrera Rosa is repeated extensively throughout Cottingham's career, manifesting in drawings, prints and paintings.

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