July 13–August 13, 2021
Beginning in the 1950s, a group of young Black men, faced with the prospect of toiling in Florida’s citrus groves, instead learned to paint the windswept palms, motley waters, and singular radiance of the Sunshine State. Unable to show in the South’s segregated galleries, these artists, soon joined by one woman, peddled their work door-to-door or from their cars on the then-new interstate roads, themselves shaped by systemic racism. Today more than two hundred thousand landscapes are credited to this informal school of self-taught painters, who forged a tradition of American regionalism that, ubiquitous but long underrecognized, helped define Florida’s image in the twentieth century.
Selby Gardens showcases landscape paintings by Florida Highwaymen
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Sarasota Exhibit Showcases Artwork, Lives Of The Florida Highwaymen
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Famous Florida Highwaymen paintings up for sale at estate sale
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Openings and Closings: March 17 to March 23 - The Magazine Antiques
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