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Sam Doyle

Sam Doyle (1906 - 1985) was active/lived in South Carolina.  Sam Doyle is 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, 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 large wooden boards and pieces of corrugated roofing tin.  His yard became a makeshift museum of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5711 characters.]  Artist bio

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