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CARROLL SOCKWELL (1943 - 1992)
Untitled (Abstract Composition).

Color pastels on wove paper, 1965. 464x622 mm; 18 1/4x24 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.

Provenance: private collection, Washington, DC.

This work of paper is an excellent example of the unique abstraction of this influential Washington, DC artist. Born in 1943, Carroll Sockwell was raised in Washington DC, as the youngest in a military family. At the age of seventeen, he went off to New York City, where he immsered himself in the art scene, experimenting abstract expressionism, pop art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism. In 1963, Sockwell returned to Washington, DC and joined the growing community of artists which the highly influential art critic Clement Greenberg named the Washington Color School. Later, Sockwell became a curator at the Barnett-Aden Gallery and also began exhibiting at Jefferson Place Gallery. In 1974, Sockwell received his first solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and participated in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In 1992, Sockwell had his last exhibition at the Washington Project for the Arts, just before his tragic death by suicide.


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