Description:

Carroll Sockwell
American, 1943-1992
Cathedral I
Mixed media, signed and titled to verso
Wooden panels geometrically composed and painted in a utilitarian manner, accented by metal and nails. Mounted behind glass in a shadowbox frame.

Carroll Sockwell was born in 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia. Carroll's works were included in many important exhibitions, including: Washington: 20 Years, held at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1970, along with African-American contemporaries Sam Gilliam, Alma Thomas, and Kenneth Young Salute to the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Morgan State College, Baltimore, 1968 The Washington Show, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1985 Washington 1968: New Painting: Structure, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1968

    Provenance:
  • Ex Iowa Wesleyan University collection
  • Dimensions:
  • Shadowbox: 30 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 5 in. (77.5 x 77.5 x 12.7 cm.)
  • Artist Name:
  • Carroll Sockwell
  • Medium:
  • Mixed media, signed and titled to verso
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