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Label from 2014.It's All American:
Founded in 1935, Twentieth Century Fox was and is one of country’s major film producers. It also owned a chain of movie theaters. In Fox, Robert Cottingham depicted a detail of the marquee of the Fox Theater in Inglewood, California. Cottingham was at the time living in nearby Los Angeles, and, like many Pop and Photorealist artists, he was enthralled with popular culture, especially the movies.
The Inglewood Theater was built in 1949 in the Streamline Moderne/Art Deco style, a style Cottingham favored. Despite the fact that the Pop and Photorealist artists were generally concerned with contemporary American life, this image evokes a sense of nostalgia for the Golden Age of the Movies when the artist was growing up.
Cottingham used the camera as a sketching tool, allowing him to quickly capture unusual viewpoints and fleeting reflections, shadows and colors. But, as in Fox, his final works tend to be idealized, closely framed, with references to the surrounding reality removed. This work expresses the glamour of the movies, which are also often more prefect than real.Label
2024 post:
Throughout 2024, we're looking back at the 100 year history of art at the Mulvane. Founded in 1935, Twentieth Century Fox was and is one of country’s major film producers. It also owned a chain of movie theaters. In his 1973 work "Fox," Robert Cottingham depicts the marquee of the Fox Theater in Inglewood, California. Cottingham was living in nearby Los Angeles, and, like many pop artists and photorealists, he was interested in popular culture, especially the movies.