The Artist John L. Doyle was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1939. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Art Institute of Chicago and his master’s degree from Northern Illinois University. Over the course of his career, Doyle held more than 50 solo exhibitions across the United States, participated in more than 30 national and international group exhibitions, and received over 32 awards, inclu…

The Artist John L. Doyle was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1939. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Art Institute of Chicago and his master’s degree from Northern Illinois University. Over the course of his career, Doyle held more than 50 solo exhibitions across the United States, participated in more than 30 national and international group exhibitions, and received over 32 awards, including multiple purchase prizes. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art. John L. Doyle’s art reflects his deep fascination with the human condition. For over a decade prior to creating the work displayed below, he studied ethnology and anthropology. The result of this study was a visual recording of what he learned—expressed through drawings that later became the foundation for a series of lithographs. These works developed into a lifelong project titled The Great Human Race. The series visually records categorical statements about civilization, focusing on the cultural development of disciplines such as medicine, law, architecture, and business. Doyle’s art is represented in numerous universities, museums, and corporate collections, including: University of North Dakota University of South Dakota Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee The Institute for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical Library, Massachusetts The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio Yale Affiliated Hospital of St. Raphael, Connecticut Mayo Clinic, Minnesota University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics University of Minnesota Campus Club (Department of History of Medicine) Denver Museum of Nature and Science Museum of Native American Cultures, Washington Other institutions, private collections, corporations, and museums exhibiting Doyle’s work include: Akron Art Institute (Ohio); Bellevue Art Museum (Washington); Birmingham Museum of Art (Mississippi); Building Service Inc. (Wisconsin); Burpee Art Museum (Illinois); Columbus Museum of Fine Art (Ohio); Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.); Johnson Wax Company (Wisconsin); Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indiana); Manitowoc Maritime Museum (Wisconsin); McGraw-Edison Corporation (Illinois); Midwestern Museum of Art (Indiana); Marshall Scott Associates Inc. (New York); Mercyhurst State College (Pennsylvania); Milwaukee Art Center (Wisconsin); Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (Wisconsin); Minnesota Museum of Art; Norton Gallery of Art (Florida); Palm Springs Desert Museum (California); Philip Morris Company; Santa Barbara Museum of Art (California); Scottsdale Center for the Arts (Arizona); Stanford University (California); Texas Tech University; and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.