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Sam Doyle (Thomas Samuel Doyle) was born on 1906 in St. Helena Island, South Carolina, is an American artist. Discover Sam Doyle's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

Popular As Thomas Samuel Doyle
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Age 79 years old
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Born 1906
Birthday 1906
Birthplace St. Helena Island, South Carolina
Date of death 1985
Died Place St. Helena Island, South Carolina
Nationality United States

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1906

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.

Sam Doyle was born in 1906 near Frogmore, on St. Helena Island.

He attended elementary school at the Penn School, a school for freed African-Americans founded by Unitarians and Quakers from Pennsylvania.

It was at the Penn School that Doyle's teachers first recognized his artistic talent and they encouraged him to pursue his practice.

Doyle dropped out of the Penn school in the ninth grade and found employment variously as a store clerk, porter, groundskeeper and finally as a laundry worker.

1931

He married Maude Brown in 1931 or 1932; the two divorced in 1949.

1940

Doyle continued his art practice in the 1940s, showing his paintings on sheet metal at first in his yard that he called his "Outdoor World-Wide-International Gallery".

Doyle would use discarded materials such as metal roofing, plywood, and house paint for his art, exhibiting a rudimentary, but unique art style.

1968

After his retirement he took up his art practice more fully in 1968.

Doyle was heavily influence by the Gullah culture of St. Helena Island, known for its high levels of African retention.

Doyle documented the strengths, weaknesses, trials, and blunders of his fellow St. Helena residents through painting their portraits.

Doyle also documented popular figures of the African American community.

Legends like Ray Charles, Martin Luther King Jr, and Jackie Robinson were portrayed in Doyle's collection.

1982

Doyle's work was included in the 1982 exhibition Black Folk Art in America at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Doyle's paintings and sculptures are held in the permanent collections of American Folk Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Gibbes Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

and Penn Center (Penn School on St. Helena Island).

1985

Doyle died in 1985 in Beaufort, South Carolina.