Sam Doyle: The Mind's Eye - Works from the Gordon W. Bailey Collection

(Los Angeles—April 25, 2014) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Sam Doyle: The Mind’s Eye - Works from the Gordon W. Bailey Collection, opening May 3 and continuing through September 1, 2014. Sam Doyle was born in 1906 on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, the center of the region’s Gullah community where African cultural 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. He placed the paintings in the yard of his clapboard house in a museum-like display.

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Sam Doyle, Adlade, 1982-85, Gordon W. Bailey Collection

Sam Doyle, Devil Spirit, 1970s, Gordon W. Bailey Collection 

Sam Doyle, Dr. Crow, 1970-83, Gordon W. Bailey Collection

Sam Doyle, First Black Midwife, 1978-83, Gordon W. Bailey Collection