John Carrol Doyle

JOHN CARROLL DOYLE (United States,1942-2014).
Screen.
Oil on panel.
Signed in the lower right area.
Measurements: 168 x 180 x 4 cm.
John Carroll Doyle was an American painter nationally recognized for his energetic and luminous compositions, encompassing a variety of subjects ranging from blues musicians to blue marlins. Self-taught, Doyle began his career with paintings of sportfishing scenes, a genre that quickly attracted the attention of a wide audience, thanks to frequent publication of his work on the covers of sportfishing magazines during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Throughout the 1980s, Doyle cemented his reputation with large-format commissions that today decorate numerous restaurants and clubs in downtown Charleston, as well as establishments in cities as far away as Chicago and Alexandria. His style, influenced by the light and colors of Charleston, positions him as one of the great representatives of contemporary American impressionism. The artist himself acknowledged as his greatest "masters" the everyday elements of his city: the wooden boats in the Charleston Yacht Basin, the lavender shadows on stuccoed walls, and the coastal light that floods the South Carolina Lowcountry year-round.
During his four-decade career, Doyle developed a body of work that combines passion, precision and a deep sense of place. In 1997 he published his autobiography, John Carroll Doyle: Portrait of a Charleston Artist, which includes color reproductions of his work and historic photographs of Charleston from the 1940s and 1950s.