Artist Sam Doyle created this image of Jackie Robinson, the American sports figure who broke the racial apartheid system in Major League Baseball, with house paint on salvaged roofing tin. Living and working on St. Helena Island off the coast of South Carolina, Doyle used discarded local materials to document people from his local community, like the first midwife and undertaker on the island. He also drew inspiration from images in the newspaper, painting famous figures from civil rights leaders to celebrities.

Paint on found, weathered, corrugated roofing tin.

M. Theresa B. Hopkins Fund, Harry Wallace Anderson Fund, and Robert Jordan Fund.

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