Designer/Maker:
Doyle Lane – Born in New Orleans. Los Angeles City
College; University of Southern California. A Student of Vivika Heino
and
F. Carlton Ball, in the late 1950’s he sold his work through
“Doyle’s
Pottery” in Los Angeles, and exhibited at the Pasadena Museum
Of Art’s
“California Design” shows in 1958 and 1958. Lane was included
in the 1969
survey exhibition known as “Objects USA,” which opened
at the Smithsonian Institution and toured the country.
Description:
A fine example of Lane’s “Clay Painting”
which he developed
in the 1960s. In it’s original wood frame and backing. Unsigned,
as many
of these were, but authenticity is guaranteed.
This technique, on a larger scale, was utilized for many outdoor mural
commissions in Southern California. About his clay painting, Lane
said:
“Why not take paintings out of doors where one may sit and watch
the
changing play of sunshine on the glazes, and thus have changes of
mood
during the day?”
