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St. Helena Island (Frogmore), SC
Sam "Uncle Sam" Doyle - Nationwide Outdoor Art Gallery (aka Wallice Plantation Gallery)
1906-1985
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Sam Doyle lived on a coastal Southern island whose inhabitants, known as the "Gullah," are descendents of slaves who maintained extensive linguistic and folkloric links to their West African forbears. Through the ninth grade, Doyle attended the island's Penn School, a Quaker project initiated after the Civil War to educate freed slaves. Until the 1970s, the island could only be reached by boat, and life had changed little there since the Previous century.
Doyle worked as a store clerk, a porter, and as a laundryman at a nearby Marine Corps base. After his wife and children left for New York in 1944, he began to paint extensively, filling his yard with portraits of locals (and their secrets), "famous firsts" (such as Jackie Robinson of Martin Luther King Jr.) and island "firsts" and "bests" (its first doctor, for example), and characters and events from Gullah legends.
Considered one of "50 Classic Outsiders", Raw Vision Sourcebook, 2002"
Southern Spirit
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Bibliography:
Museums
American Folk Art Museum, NY
Asheville Art Museum, NC
Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Fine Art, Nashville, TN
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Menello Museum of American Folk Art, FL
Rockford Art Museum, IL
Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum, Washington DC
South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
References
"Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980" by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, published for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1982.
"Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists" by Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990.
"Pictured in My Mind", exhibit catalog, 1995
Raw Vision Magazine: "Sam Doyle: St. Helena Island's Native Son" No 23, 1998
"Souls Grown Deep, Vol 1", Arnett et al, 2000
"Contemporary American Folk Art - A Collector's Guide" Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Abbeville Press, 1996.
"Let it Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection" by Lynne E. Spriggs, Joanne Cubbs, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Susan Mitchell Crawley, Michael E. Shapiro and Peter Harholdt, organized by the High Museum of Art, 2001.
"50 Classic Outsiders", Raw Vision Sourcebook, 2002"
"American Self-Taught Art: An Illustrated Analysis of 20th Century Artists and Trends with 1,319 Capsule Biographies" by Florence Laffal and Julius Laffal, 2003.
"Baking in the Sun, Visionary Images from the South" by Andy Nasisse and Maude Wahlman, University of Washington Press, exhibit catalog, 1987.
Slotin Folk Art Auction Catalog, Masterpiece Sale, November 4, 2006
"20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993.
"Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art—A guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources" by Betty-Carol Sellen with Cynthia J. Johnson, 2000.
"Souls Grown Deep: African American vernacular Art of the South", Vol 1, Arnett, et al, 1995.
"Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980" by Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, published for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1982.
"Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook" Raw Vision, Ltd., 2002
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
"Wos Up Man?" Selections from the Joseph D. and Janet M. Sheen Collection of Self-taught Art" Palmer Museum of Art, 2005. |
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Try Me
Paint on roofing tin. 26.5 x 38.5
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