Education
He studied at Los Angeles City College, East Los Angeles City College before attending the University of Southern California.
He studied at Los Angeles City College, East Los Angeles City College before attending the University of Southern California.
His work ranged from delicate vases and ceramic sculptures to large scale clay paintings and mosaics. Lane maintained a studio in the El Sereno district of East Los Los Angeles He exhibited his work at Brockman Gallery in Leimert Park (1968) and Ankrum Gallery on Louisiana Cienega Boulevard (1967, 1968), both notable centers for African American Art in Los Angeles in the mid-twentieth century.
Born in New Orleans, he moved to Los Angeles by the early 1950s.
Early in his career, he worked as a glaze technician for L.H. Butcher and Company Later he would maintain a self-supporting practice as a studio ceramist.
Lane created large-scale clay paintings for many prominent sites in Southern California. California Lutheran Nursing Home and Health Center (Alhambra)
Golden State Bank (Downey)
Equitable Savings and Loan (Canoga Park)
International Children"s School (Los Angeles)
Miller Robinson (Santa Fe Springs)
Mutual Savings and Loan, 1964 (Pasadena), acquired by the Huntington Library
Pantry Foods (Pasadena)
California Design 4, Pasadena Art Museum (1958)
California Design 5, Pasadena Art Museum (1959)
California Design 6, Pasadena Art Museum (1960)
Ankrum Gallery (1967)
Ankrum Gallery (1968)
Brockman Gallery (1968)
Objects:United States of America (1970)
California Black Craftsmen, Mills College Art Gallery (1970)
Solo exhibition at Los Angeles City College Art Gallery (October 1977)
California Design, 1930-1965: "Living in A Modern Way," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (October 1, 2011- June 3, 2012)
Doyle Lane: Clay Paintings, The Landing at Reform Gallery (solo exhibition, May 1-July 5, 2014)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Oakland Museum of California
California African American Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Huntington Library.