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The Florida Highwaymen who are still alive are Willie Reagan (1939), Robert L. Lewis Jr. (1941), Sam Newton (1948) and Curtis ...
Al Black is one of the last living Highwaymen artists who is inspiring a new generation to carry on the skills he has learned. To this day, Black, 76, still paints in his small garage in Fort Pierce.
The Tampa Museum of Art continues to celebrate and honor the richness and complexity of Florida’s cultural tapestry with its newest exhibition, Living Color: The Art of the Highwaymen. On view through ...
One of the few remaining Florida Highwaymen, Albert "Al" Black, died May 12 at ... Jim Crow era laws prohibited the Black artists from displaying their art in galleries, so they took to the ...
Their work has brightened canvases for decades, but only recently have Florida ... Black and the other Highwaymen will be honored this weekend in Fort Pierce at the annual Highwaymen Heritage ...
One of the original "Florida Highwaymen" will ... 352walls/Gainesville Urban Art Initiative mural. Known for his vivid landscapes, sunrises and sunsets, Black will begin his mural late Tuesday ...
TODD CHRIS THANK YOU. TONIGHT ONE OF THE LAST LIVING FLORIDA HIGHWAYMEN AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS, A TREASURE COAST ICON WITH HIS PAINTBRUSH HAS PASSED AWAY. ANGELA ROZIER SHARES MORE ON HIS LEGACY ...
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 ...
Jim Crow laws prohibited the Black artists from displaying their art in galleries. One of the few remaining Florida Highwaymen, Albert "Al" Black, died May 12 at the age of 77, according to the A ...