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.

Florida Highwaymen movie "Legends of the Highway" is based on the original 26 Black artists. Retired NFL star Kenny Holmes, who grew up in Gifford, is executive producer. The late artist Alfred ...

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 Highwaymen were a group of 26 Black artists, including one woman, based in Fort Pierce who got their start in the mid-1950s painting various Florida landscapes. The Highwaymen Museum in Fort ...

Florida Highwayman Roy McClendon painting at a Florida Highwaymen Meet and Greet on December 9, 2018. (Orange County Regional History Center) Now when you search for Highwaymen paintings online ...

Roger Lightle is an art collector who lives in Vero Beach. He owns about 700 paintings by the Florida Highwaymen. He bought his first painting in 1999. "The very first Highwaymen artist was Harold ...

Highwaymen paintings can be seen at the A.E. Backus Gallery & Museum in Fort Pierce, as well as the Museum of Florida History in Tallahassee. Many can be purchased at various websites in their honor.

TODAY, COVERING NORTHERN PALM BEACH COUNTY. ORIGINAL WORKS OF FLORIDA. HIGHWAYMEN. ART COMING TO PALM BEACH GARDENS SET TO BE DISPLAYED IN AN ART EXHIBIT. HERE TO TELL US MORE ABOUT THE CITY’S ...

THAT SOLD HIGHWAYMEN ART WAY BACK WHEN, 20 YEARS AGO. BUT IT’S A PAINTING THAT JUST SHOWS THE BEAUTY OF FLORIDA. AND AND THAT’S WHY IT’S CLASSIC ART NOW, BECAUSE THE HIGHWAYMEN CREATED A NEW ...

Today, Florida Highwaymen paintings can fetch up to $45,000 ... In the background is a giant reproduction of a 1950s-era postcard of the Causeway Bridge over the Indian River in Fort Pierce.