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Sam Doyle
American, 1906-1985

John Chisolem, St. Helena’s
First Embalmer, ca. 1980
House paint on roofing tin

T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Collection, 1996.29

Sam Doyle’s paintings on roofing tin
document daily life on St. Helena Island,
off the South Carolina coast, which is home
to a Gullah community of former slaves and
their descendants.