Doyle Lane
Doyle Lane is known forwork that ranges from beaded necklaces to delicate vases he called weed pots to ceramic sculptures to clay paintings, and large scale wall mosaics.The Orange Wall, commissioned for ...
Read more
Typical Marks
About
- Biography
-
Doyle Lane is known forwork that ranges from beaded necklaces to delicate vases he called weed pots to ceramic sculptures to clay paintings, and large scale wall mosaics.The Orange Wall, commissioned for 301 E. Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena at 18 feet long is one of his largest mosaics. This piece is now installed at The Huntington Garden and Library in San Marion, CA.
While at the University of Southern California he studied with Vivika Heino and Carlton Ball.
Lane?s clay paintings were often round with areas defined by color fields or they were composed of pieces that had been cut from the whole, glazed and then reassembled. Typically the clay paintings are mounted on a wooden background. Lane's goal with the paintings was to create a painting that could be outside.
A glaze specialist, in the Glen Lukens tradition, he developed glazes to enhance his small simple forms. They often crawl, bubble, crack and melt off the lower edges of his pieces.
As a Black man, Doyle Lane, struggled to sell his work in the mid 20th century.
" - Apprenticeships & Residencies
- Primary Work Experience
-
1942-1946
Military
1950's-1950'sGlaze Chemist, L.H. Butcher Chemical, East Los Angeles, California
Studio Potter
Other
- Public Collections
-
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
- Bibliography
-
Cederholm, Theresa Dickason. Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory. Boston, MA: Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1973
Doyle Lane. Clay Paintings. Los Angeles: The Landing at Reform Gallery, 2014.
Lewis, Samella. African American Art and Artists. Berkeley, CA Berkeley University of California Press, 1990.
Montgomery, Evangeline J. California Black Craftsmen. Oakland, CA: Mills College Art Gallery, 1970.
Nordness, Lee. Objects USA: Works by Artist-Craftsmen in Ceramic, Enamel, Glass,Metal, Plastic, Mosaic, Wood and Fiber. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1970.
Tigerman, Bobbye. A Handbook of California Design. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
Wilson, Stanley, Studio Potter 1970s, 1981
- CV or Resume
- Website(s)
Citation: Doyle Lane, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/doyle-lane
