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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.
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.
- March 24, 1906
- September 25, 1985
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.
Sam Doyle. Jackie Robinson, c. 1978 -81. housepaint on tin. 55 x 27 in. (139.7 x 68.9 cm.) Biography. American, 20th century. Born 1906, St. Helena Island, South Carolina; died 1985. Sam Doyle was born in South Carolina on Saint Helena Island where African cultural influences thrived.
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.
Sam Doyle. Jackie Robinson, c. 1978 -81. housepaint on tin. 55 x 27 in. (139.7 x 68.9 cm.) la biographie. Américain, XXe siècle. Né en 1914 à Memphis, Tennessee; mort en 2005 à Memphis.
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. Straightforward as it may seem, Doyle ...
