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This museum houses artwork by A. E. Backus and other Florida artists. [1] The museum contains the largest public collection of paintings by Backus, [ 1 ] a preeminent Florida landscape painter. 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.
Florida's Highwaymen: Legendary Landscapes. Historical Society of Central Florida, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-9772344-2-4. [32] Christiansen, Tess. "The Florida Highwaymen: From the Roadside to the National Collection." Washington, DC: National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2017.
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 ...
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The Highwaymen began their artistic journey in the 1950s in Fort Pierce as a way to make a living outside of typical jobs held by African-Americans Al Black of 'Florida Highwaymen' fame to paint ...
In 1947, Butler moved to Okeechobee, Florida, [2] where he later became intimately familiar with the woods and waters of the Florida Everglades, and especially Lake Okeechobee, that feature prominently in his paintings. Robert Butler's goal in his paintings was to preserve the nature around him which was easily accessible due to his location.
In 2002, Hambrick and his son Jack co-produced an hour-long PBS-TV documentary film about the Florida Highwaymen, a group of pioneering African-American Florida artists. The film, titled The Highwaymen: Florida's Outsider Artist, included interviews with a portion of the artists, their mentor, late renowned Florida landscape painter A.E. Backus, and more than 100 original Highwaymen paintings.
The Highwaymen Florida specialty license plate needs 3,000 pre-sales by October before the state will produce them. Buy one at this Fort Pierce event.