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- Thomas “Sam” Doyle 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.
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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.
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In 1526 a group of African slaves, with Native American help, revolted and escaped from a short-lived Spanish colony near the Pee Dee River on the South Carolina coast. Further south, on the Sea Island of St. Helena off the same coast, between Charleston and Savannah, Sam Doyle was born in 1906.
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 - Biography. 1906-1985. Sam Doyle was born near Frogmore, South Carolina, on St. Helena Island, a fairly remote place that for generations was traditionally a black island. The lore of Doyle's forebearers and the incidents of his own youth are still vivid in his paintings and drawings, done in enamel paint of sheet metal.
Sam Doyle - Biography | Ricco/Maresca. Photo by Roger Manley, 1983. Sam Doyle attended Penn School—founded in 1862 to teach skills to newly liberated slaves near the Sea Islands off South Carolina. It was during his years there that he first received encouragement for his art.
Sam Doyle was a native of the island of St. -Helena, off the South Carolina coast. Discovered about 1520, St. Helena was occupied by the Spanish, French, and English until the American Revolution.
Aug 18, 2014 · Sam Doyle was born in 1906 on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, the center of the region's Gullah community, where African influences thrived. He began making paintings on cast-off sheet metal and wood panels in 1944; most were portraits of people and events important to his community.
