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Alfred Hair is played by grandson Kelvin Hair II. Other stars include Julian Horton, Daniel Augustin, Johnell Young and ...
The last four Florida Highwaymen are Willie Reagan, Robert L. Lewis Jr., Sam Newton and Curtis Arnett. Jim Crow laws prohibited the Black artists from displaying their art in galleries.
The Florida Highwaymen are an iconic group of Black artists who lived predominately in Fort Pierce and Gifford in the 1950s. They got their start painting Florida landscapes under the tutelage of ...
Al Black was born in 1947 near Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to Fort Pierce in the 1960s and sold Florida Highwaymen paintings before he became an artist. He was inducted into the Florida Artists ...
Al Black was born in 1947 near Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to Fort Pierce in the 1960s and sold Florida Highwaymen paintings before he became an artist. He was inducted into the Florida Artists ...
THE GROUP OF 26 AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS KNOWN AS THE FLORIDA HIGHWAYMEN, BROKE BARRIERS BY SELLING THEIR PAINTINGS ROADSIDE DURING SEGREGATION IN THE 1960S. TODAY, THEIR DESCENDANTS CONTINUE ...
The Florida Highwaymen are a group of Black painters who started selling their art out of their cars in the 1950s and 1960s during the peak of segregation. “You have a group of artists ...
2025 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art winner Nathalie Alfonzo and nominated artists talk about their work during a preview of the exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art, Friday, May 30 ...