Florida Highwaymen
 Paintings

The Florida Highwaymen, a group of 26 African-Americans, broke convention to paint beautiful iconic landscapes. Originating in the mid 1950's, these self-taught entrepreneurs mentored each other while they painted on basic materials like Upson board for canvasses, and crown molding for frames. Local galleries shunned their work, so they peddled their art from car trunks along area roadways, hence their name. Their art created a body of work that has become not only a timeless collection of a natural environment, but a symbol of determination and belief in oneself.
The surviving Highwaymen, now in their sixties and seventies, are an important chapter
 in America’s culture and history, indeed, a National Treasure.
 

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