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The Highwaymen, also referred to as the Florida Highwaymen, are a group of 26 African American landscape artists in Florida. Two of the original artists, Harold Newton, and Alfred Hair, received training from Alfred “Beanie” Backus. It is believed they may have created a body of work of over 200,000 paintings.
With humble beginnings, Highwaymen art is now exalted as a distinctive American art genre with a permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Local history: Florida Highwaymen started ...
The Highwaymen (country supergroup), a 1985–1995 country music supergroup; The Highwaymen (folk band), a 1960s collegiate folk band; The Highwaymen (landscape artists), a group of 20th-century African-American landscape painters from Florida
The Highwaymen are 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 to earn money instead of working ...
Artists who are officially name-checked are counted here, including one-time pairings of otherwise solo artists and "featured" acts. "Highwayman" is credited to the supergroup The Highwaymen, which comprised Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. This song does not count towards those artists' individual totals.
Alfred Warner Hair (1941-1970), also Freddy Hair, [1] was an American painter from Fort Pierce, Florida who, along with Harold Newton, was instrumental in founding the Florida Highwaymen artist movement.
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Harold Newton (October 30, 1934 – June 27, 1994) was an American landscape artist. [1] He was a founding member of the Florida Highwaymen, a group of fellow African American landscape artists. [2] Newton and the other Highwaymen were influenced by the work of Florida painter A.E. Backus. Newton depicted Florida’s coastlines and wetlands. [3]