John Carroll Doyle: Portrait of a Charleston Artist Signed by John Carroll Doyle

John Carroll Doyle: Portrait of a Charleston Artist

Trumbo Street Press, 1999; Second Edition. Hardcover. 202 pages. Bound in green cloth with gilt stamped title to spine and John Carroll Doyle blind stamped to front board. Textured endpapers. Tissue paper frontispiece. Copiously illustrated with color plates reproducing the artist's works, as well as color and black-and-white photos. Flat signed by John Carroll Doyle to the half-title page.

VG+ Clean, square, and firm. Small spot to front endpaper. Very mild edge toning to preliminary pages. Dust jacket, price clipped, is crisp and bright.

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Overflowing with nostalgic photographs of Charleston in the 1940s and 1950s, this beautifully designed autobiography of John Carroll Doyle offers 93 color plates of sun-drenched gardens, classic nudes, sparkling oceans with gleaming gamefish as well as some of the most moving canvases ever painted of the city's African-American community.

Born and raised in Charleston, Mr. Doyle, with little formal art education, claims as his art teachers his City's architecture, the enchanting wooden boats at the yacht basin, the old Charleston Museum stocked with relics from around the world, the

French Impressionist books in the old library on Rutledge Avenue, and above all the coastal sun that floods his city with a brilliant light.