Ascension

Description

Near the road outside his house, Sam Doyle created the St. Helena Out Door Art Gallery, which he filled with paintings honoring the achievements of both local and nationally prominent African Americans, local characters, and the creatures that populated local legends.

Simple and powerful, Doyle’s untitled depiction of the Ascension of Christ is one of his most convincing paintings of religious subjects. Doyle shows the scene from a high vantage point, conveying scale through size and simultaneously showing Christ both nearer to the viewer and more important than his distant followers on the ground. The painting’s fresh colors communicate its subject clearly and immediately.