On display at the Bartram Trail Branch. www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/
The painting Calm Backwater by Livingston Roberts is a great example of his ability and such paintings are capable to make the sale.
North Beach by Harold Newton is another great one to share with everyone. Just the palette knife was used to create this late 1950’s early 1960’s painting.
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They are credited with churning out some 200,000 landscape paintings in the area of Fort Pierce, Fla., since the 1960s. And a teenager named Alfred Hair was the mastermind behind the whole operation.
In the 1950s, a group of Black Fort Pierce artists formed a collective, painting sought-after Florida landscapes and earning admiration in the then-segregated South. Here’s their story.
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Today, their paintings hang in the White House. But in the 1960s, they sold them, often still wet, from the trunks of their cars.
Harold Newton painted Florida's light like no one else. When it came to the sky and clouds, the mixing of his palette and application of his colors surpassed more recognized artists.
The Florida Highwaymen, which included painters like Howard Newton and Alfred Hair, were 26 Black artists who resisted Jim Crow law with their art.
Willie Daniels, Florida Highwaymen Tampa Bay History Center
Focused on the visual arts in Florida with a little architecture and food along the way. “Truth, Beauty, and Some Stories to Tell”
A landmark exhibition of powerful Southern beauty opens at the Tampa Museum of Art
