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1906 Saint Helena Island, South Carolina - 1985 Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. Known for: Naive style figure, portrait and genre regionalist painting.
Information provided in April of 2006 by Karen C. Holmes:. Sam Doyle (1906 -1985) was a Gullah folk artist born on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. He painted on scraps of wood and metal,... Read full biography
Information provided in April of 2006 by Karen C. Holmes:. Sam Doyle (1906 -1985) was a Gullah folk artist born on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. He painted on scraps of wood and metal, documenting both St. Helena firsts and prominent members of the island community. He was born the eighth of... Read full biography
Information provided in April of 2006 by Karen C. Holmes:. Sam Doyle (1906 -1985) was a Gullah folk artist born on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. He painted on scraps of wood and metal, documenting both St. Helena firsts and prominent members of the island community. He was born the eighth of nine children and attended the Penn School, the first established in the south for free blacks, up through the ninth grade. One of his teachers there noted his talent for drawing and encouraged him... Read full biography
Information provided in April of 2006 by Karen C. Holmes:. Sam Doyle (1906 -1985) was a Gullah folk artist born on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. He painted on scraps of wood and metal, documenting both St. Helena firsts and prominent members of the island community. He was born the eighth of nine children and attended the Penn School, the first established in the south for free blacks, up through the ninth grade. One of his teachers there noted his talent for drawing and encouraged him to travel north to study art. He did not want to leave St. Helena; instead, he found work as a store clerk, a porter, and a laundry worker. He married in 1932 and had three children; his wife and children would later move up to New York and leave him... Read full biography
Information provided in April of 2006 by Karen C. Holmes:. Sam Doyle (1906 -1985) was a Gullah folk artist born on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. He painted on scraps of wood and metal, documenting both St. Helena firsts and prominent members of the island community. He was born the eighth of nine children and attended the Penn School, the first established in the south for free blacks, up through the ninth grade. One of his teachers there noted his talent for drawing and encouraged him to travel north to study art. He did not want to leave St. Helena; instead, he found work as a store clerk, a porter, and a laundry worker. He married in 1932 and had three children; his wife and children would later move up to New York and leave him in St. Helena. After retirement, Doyle resumed his childhood activity of painting in 1968, using house paint on l... Read full biography
Sam Doyle - Artist Info
About Sam Doyle: Keywords
Keywords (17)
Art Method
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Outsider Art
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean