We produced this photoessay book for the artist Robert Cottingham to accompany his show “Components” at the Forum Gallery in New York City. Photographer Joel Meyerowitz went to Robert’s studio in Connecticut to shoot the artist at work. His images give a fascinating and intimate glimpse of the place where these paintings were created.

For the book’s endpapers we used the 1940s technical drawings that were the inspiration for this series of paintings. We chose French folds for the cover, which gives the volume a pleasing heft in your hands. The shape of the book is intended to echo the shape of the canvases.