The Highwaymen: Florida’s Black Landscape Artists

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Genealogy & History, Community & Lifestyle

Age Group:

Adults
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The Florida Highwaymen were a group of 26 African American landscape artists, mostly on Florida’s east coast, active from the 1950s through the 1980s. In total, they created more than 150,000 paintings of Old Florida, which was fast disappearing. Because galleries in Florida would not display the works of Black artists, the core group of 25 men and one woman developed a unique way to create and market their works. We will look at the history of the movement and some of the works created by that core group of 26 “Florida Highwaymen.”

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