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Linnea Pergola is a contemporary American artist whose work blends vibrant images of scenes from the modern-day hustle-and-bustle of cities with the quaint, nostalgic, home-grown simple realism of American folk artists like Grandma Moses. Pergola was born in Los Angeles in 1953 and has been exhibiting work at galleries including The Ambassador Gallery of New York, Martin Lawrence and others since 1989. Pergola's subject matter is influenced by her time at Cal...
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Brooklyn-born American painter Robert Cottingham is widely considered a master of photorealism and a major figure in the Americana movement. After a brief stint working as a commercial artist, during which time he dedicated himself to his own painting practice, Cottingham became renowned for his highly detailed depictions of urban American signage. Unpretentious, playful and rooted in a sense of clear-eyed realism, any of these seven chromogenic prints and serigraphs...