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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.
The Highwaymen was an American country music supergroup, composed of four of country music's biggest artists who pioneered the outlaw country subgenre: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
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.
The Highwaymen made the names as individual artists before creating one of country's most notable supergroups. Country music pioneers Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon ...
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 ...
Decades ago, the Florida Highwaymen painted their way into Sunshine State art history with their talent, resourcefulness and creativity. While fewer than half the original Highwaymen artists are ...
Highwayman, consisting of ten tracks, was released as a follow-up to the successful single of the same name and the title track of the album itself."Highwayman", a Jimmy Webb cover, hit the top of the country charts and was followed up by the Top 20 hit "Desperados Waiting for a Train", whose original version was released by Guy Clark.
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 ...