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Harold Cousins

Harold Cousins (1916 - 1992) was active/lived in District Of Columbia, New York / France, Belgium.  Harold Cousins is known for Abstract sculpture-mixed media.

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An African-American sculptor who at age 33 became an expatriate in Paris from America, Harold Cousins worked in a variety of mediums including stone, wood, metal and terra cotta, and in a variety of styles from realism to total abstraction.  In the 1950s and 1960s, he expressed his political views about racial integration in America with figurative works including Political Prisoner (1954), Slave (1963) and Standing Figure (1963), a silhouette suggestive of the Ku Klux Klan.

By the time he left for Europe, Harold Cousins had already established a professional reputation in his own country.  He grew up in northwest Washington DC in an area known as "Black Broadway".  In 1943, he began studies at Howard University and was much influenced by Alaine Locke, art historian and writer who encouraged pride and interest in African art.  From 1943 to 1945, Cousins served in the U.S. Coast Guard working with Sonar, and then retu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5568 characters.]  Artist bio

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