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Sam Doyle. Thomas " Sam " Doyle (1906–1985) was an African-American artist from Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. [1] . His colorful paintings on sheet metal and wood recorded the history and people of St. Helena's Gullah community. Early life. Sam Doyle was born in 1906 near Frogmore, on St. Helena Island. [2] .
Artist. Sam Doyle. Date ca. 1981. house paint and beer can on metal roofing panel. Not on view. We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection.
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. Due to its isolation and its ethnic concentration, Gullah culture took root here, giving the island a distinct tradition with African roots that persisted with rare continuity into Doyle’s time.
1906-1985. Sam Doyle was born near Frogmore, South Carolina, on St. Helena Island, a fairly remote place that for generations was traditionally a black island. The lore of Doyle's forebearers and the incidents of his own youth are still vivid in his paintings and drawings, done in enamel paint of sheet metal. They depict the islanders of Doyle ...
Sam Doyle. Sam Doyle vivió todos los años de su vida, excepto unos pocos, en la isla de Santa Elena, epicentro de la singular cultura gulá de Estados Unidos, una comunidad relativamente aislada de descendientes de africanos esclavizados que mantuvieron una profunda conexión con las tradiciones de África Occidental.
He painted Joe Louis, Ray Charles, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr., and various basketball players, entertainers, and other notables. Doyle had an inevitable interest in folk medicine: it served as the primary source of cures and remedies for most of the island's residents.
18 de ago. de 2014 · May 3–Sep 1, 2014. Art of the Americas Building, Level 3. Image: Sam Doyle, Dr. Crow, 1970-83. House paint on metal. Gordon W. Bailey Collection. Sam Doyle was born in 1906 on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, the center of the region's Gullah community, where African influences thrived.
