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In 1955, 19-year-old African American artist Harold Newton was convinced by A. E. Backus, a prominent Florida landscape artist, to create paintings of landscapes rather than religious scenes. [7] Newton sold his landscapes from the trunk of his car because art galleries in South Florida refused to represent African Americans. [8]
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.
Sidewalk Sam is the pseudonym of Robert Charles Guillemin (May 4, 1939 – January 26, 2015), a Boston-based artist who resided in Newton, Massachusetts. He is best recognized for his reproductions of European masterpieces, chalked or painted on the sidewalk.
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]
Robert Butler (September 25, 1943 – March 19, 2014) was a postwar and contemporary artist best known for his portrayals of the woods and backwaters around Florida's Everglades. He was a member of the well-known African-American artists group, The Highwaymen .
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McKay explains his own passion for the often-controversial artistic mission California native Peckinpah, who died at age 59 in 1984. “Sam Peckinpah was the Evel Knievel of filmmakers,” notes ...
Smither was born in New Plymouth and was educated at New Plymouth Boys' High School and Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland.While studying he worked part-time in a car spray-paint shop, an occupation which introduced Smither to the use of lacquer-based paints.