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Carroll Sockwell

Carroll Sockwell (1943 - 1992) was active/lived in District Of Columbia.  Carroll Sockwell is known for Abstract expression, geometric images and interior scene paintings.

The following is from Ruth Robertson, who submitted the information on behalf of the Carroll Sockwell estate.

Born In 1943, Sockwell grew up in segregated Washington, the youngest son in a military family. Despite his family's relative prosperity, Sockwell led a troubled childhood and It was not until his artistic talents were recognized by Elinor Ulman, a noted art therapist and teacher at the Corcoran School of Art that Sockwell gained the confidence to pursue a career as an artist. At the age of seventeen he struck off for New York City where he immersed himself in the art scene of the time,meeting artists of the abstract expressionist movement and others beginning the expansion in Pop Art, Minimalism and conceptualism.

Upon his return to Washington in 1963. Sockwell found a city that itself had become an important art center. More than a place that housed great collections of art, it was a place that fostered a growing community of working artists from which the hig   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11856 characters.]  Artist bio

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