- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Whooping boy
- Creator:
- Doyle, Sam, 1906-1985
- Date of Original:
- 1906/1985
- Subject:
- Folk art--United States
African American folk art--United States
African American painting--United States
Folk art--South Carolina
African American folk art--South Carolina
African American painting--South Carolina
Human figure in art
Figure painting--South Carolina - People:
- Painting, American
- Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009 - Medium:
- paintings (visual works)
paint
tin - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Painting by Sam Doyle.
Doyle lived on St. Helena Island off the coast of South Carolina. After quitting school and beginning work at an early age, he eventually found permanent employment in the laundry of the Marine Corps base at Parris Island in South Carolina. Doyle began to paint in the 1940s. He used enamel house paint and roofing tin to depict life on the island, and to create a diverse gallery of real and imagined characters. In 1982, Doyle traveled to Washington, D.C. to see his work exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta mounted a retrospective exhibition of Doyle's work in 2000.
Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm04132011-27
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm04132011-27
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 painting on tin : house paint ; 77 x 77 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
-
