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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 ...
The Highwaymen: Legends of the Road. Fort Pierce, FL: A. E. Backus Museum and Gallery, 2008. DVD. Hambrick, Jack. The Highwaymen: Florida’s Outsider Artists. Harrington Park: Janson Media, 2003. DVD. Hurd, Gordon K. "Alfred Hair (1941-1970) - A charismatic businessman who created a movement for Florida’s black artists."
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. The museum is dedicated to presenting and collecting works by Backus and the original Florida Highwaymen. [2]
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 ...
Restoration work on Florida Highwaymen Museum in Fort Pierce began Tuesday. Florida speeders beware. Restorations on the historic building that will house the City of Fort Pierce Highwaymen Museum ...
Alfred Warner Hair was born 20 May 1941 in Fort Pierce, Florida, one of seven children of Samuel and Annie Mae Hair. [2] Hair graduated from Lincoln Park Academy in 1961, and attended one year at community college before dropping out to pursue his career as an artist.
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The Fort Pierce Railroad Station in the early 20th Century. Fort Pierce is located on U.S. Route 1, near its intersection with Florida State Road 70. Interstate 95 and Florida's Turnpike are nearby, at the west edge of town. The Intracoastal Waterway passes through the city.