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This museum houses artwork by A. E. Backus and other Florida artists. [1] The museum contains the largest public collection of paintings by Backus, [1] a preeminent Florida landscape painter. The A.E. Backus Museum & Gallery, an 8,000 sq. ft. public visual arts facility, was established in 1960 by Backus and a group of local art enthusiasts.
Beanie was mostly self-taught, although he did enjoy two summer stints at the Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1924–25. [12] Backus always earned his living through his artistic talent, first as a commercial artist painting signs, billboards and theater marquees, and later encouraged by Dorothy Binney Palmer, his first true patron, to pursue his landscape paintings as a full-time ...
A. E. Backus Gallery & Museum houses artwork by A. E. Backus, and other Florida artists such as "The Highwaymen". The Museum of Florida History in Tallahassee has paintings by twenty-three of the original twenty-six artists.
Museum Name Image Community County Region Type Notes A. E. Backus Gallery & Museum: Fort Pierce: St. Lucie Central East Art Features landscapes by A. E. Backus and pieces by other Florida artists A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center: Gainesville: Alachua North Central History Former home of A. Quinn Jones ACCORD Civil Rights Museum St ...
A. E. Backus Museum & Gallery; H. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute; N. National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum; S. St. Lucie County Regional History Center This page ...
In 2011, the Withers Collection Museum and Gallery was established at 333 Beale St., the site of his last working studio. And on Tuesday, his legacy received a major boost, when the location was ...
A. E. Backus Gallery & Museum; African American Museum of the Arts; African-American Research Library and Cultural Center; Albin Polasek House and Studio; Alexander Brest Museum and Gallery; Appleton Museum of Art; The Art League of Daytona Beach; Atlantic Center for the Arts; Audubon House and Tropical Gardens
A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery. A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery; Arcade Building; Art Mundo at the Art Bank [25] Boston House; Dust Tracks of Zora Neale Hurston [26] [27] Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute; Havert L. Fenn Center [citation needed] Heathcote Botanical Gardens; Historic Main Street [28] Florida Power and Light Energy Encounter [29]