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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.
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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] Most of his paintings were of Florida landscapes. [4]
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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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The remaining members of the approximately 26 African-American landscape painters painting in and around Fort Pierce, Florida, were inspired by Backus' success but they were not actual students of Backus. The Highwaymen directly copied Backus' paintings with varying degrees of success, Harold Newton being the one whose work is closest to Backus.
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]