Florida Highwaymen Exhibit

Alfred Hair (1941-1970) A Pivotal Core Member and Motivator of the Florida Highwaymen Oil on Upson Board (Circa 1965) Classic Poinciana Tree Painting On Loan to U.S. State Department Art in the Embassies Program... please visit the Florida Highwaymen Exhibit website https://floridahighwaymenexhibit.com/

Mary Ann Carroll (1940-2019) The only female Florida Highwaymen Oil on Upson Board (Circa 1968) On loan to U.S. State Department "An Amazing Art Story" the Ottawa, Citizen Circa February 2016... https://ottawacitizen.com//amazing-art-story-the-florida-h

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The Florida Highwaymen Exhibit beginnings, June 2005, Gulfport Florida. Special thanks to Frank Hibrant, Geoff Cook, and Diane Craig for their invaluable help to make it happen! The Florida Highwaymen in Attendance were L to R: R.A. "Roy" McLendon, Willie C. Reagan, James Gibson (1938-2017), Mary Ann Carroll (1940-2019) some white guy, and Isaac Knight

In 1954, a 20-year-old African American Landscape artist challenged Florida's Jim Crow laws, while pursuing his love of painting. His artistic creativity and influence on what would eventually become 25 other Black artists created the incredible story and the stunning art that would create a mid-century American Art Movement. Still relatively unknown, the Florida Highwaymen's story is equally if not more, relevant today than it was in the mid-1950s. Surrounded by racism and social confinements, they broke free and chased their own story of the American Dream, while creating a legacy of a primordial Florida, now lost in time and to the tools of man. Their unique part in 20TH century American culture and history.

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The Florida Highwaymen Exhibit Collection

Florida Highwaymen Exhibit Available 80 Vintage Works by the Original Core Group Members Paintings Circa 1960-85

Harold Newton Painting Circa 1975 On Loan To U.S. State Department for Exhibit in Foreign Embassies

The Florida Highwaymen started painting in the early 1950's. They have created an amazing untold Art Story, History Story and African American Culture Story. 26 African American mostly self taught landscape artists who found freedom from oppression, racism and hatred by using the beauty of the art they created. Please spread the word on this art exhibit that is available for exhibition purposes in the US.