African American Highwayman Art

African American Highwayman Art

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FloridaHighwaymenPaintings.com says: "In the early 1950's through the 1980's a group of twenty-six African-American artists known as the "Florida Highwaymen" used vivid and bright colors to display the beautiful untouched Florida landscape." Accessed 8/17

The Highwaymen, also referred to as the Florida Highwaymen, from Wikipedia Accessed 8/17

Living Color: The Art of the Highwaymen is a 2020 exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art which says: "Working in and around the Fort Pierce area beginning in the 1950s, these self-taught artists depicted the state's scenic coastline and wild backcountry, often in dazzling combinations of color and tone. Brilliant tropical sunsets, windblown palms, towering sunlit clouds, and blooming poinciana trees are among the many subjects that have become iconic images of Florida in part because of the paintings that the Highwaymen created." Also see 3/3/20 article in ARTnews. Accessed 10/20

NPR says of The Highwaymen: "If you traveled by way of Florida's Route 1 in the 1960s, you might have encountered a young, African-American artist, selling a lushly painted oil landscape from his car. They weren't allowed in galleries during Jim Crow segregation -- but motels, office buildings and tourists would buy their vivid works." Accessed 8/17

April, 2023 screenshot via Google video search:

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