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Thomas "Sam" Doyle (1906–1985) was an African-American artist from Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. His colorful paintings on sheet metal and wood recorded the history and people of St. Helena's Gullah community.
1 de jul. de 2022 · Thomas Samuel Doyle. Born. St. Helena Island, South Carolina, United States. Died. St. Helena Island, South Carolina, United States. We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection. July 1, 2022– March 26, 2023. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Sam Doyle. Born 1906, near Frogmore, South Carolina. Died 1985, Beaufort, South Carolina. Sam Doyle grew up on Saint Helena Island, a remote South Carolina enclave populated mainly by the descendants of African slaves, who vastly outnumbered whites.
Following his retirement in the 1960s, Doyle devoted himself to painting themes and characters from his Gullah community. He also portrayed famous figures like Ray Charles and Jackie Robinson, as well as many local celebrities and characters from home-grown folklore.
Doyle (1906-1985) grew up in St. Helena, and through his art, he chronicled the history and changes on the island—the landscape and culture, the island’s oral storytelling, and people from Jim Crow through the mid-century civil rights era and integration.
Certainly one of the most insightful and informative chronicles of Gullah life is the body of paintings produced by Sam Doyle. He felt a responsibility to record what he saw and knew. One week before his death at age seventy-nine, he explained, "These are some things that happen a long time ago.
Doyle’s gestural technique in his portraits and narrative works captured the soul and vivacity of his subjects. His palette varied radically from one painting to the next, but his signature mode of representation—an expressive, abstracted, flattened figuration—remained recognizable across the board.
