Florida Highwaymen Art
News, Info and Paintings
In the early 1950’s through the 1980’s a group of twenty-six African-American artists known as the "Florida Highwaymen" used vivid and bright colors to display the beautiful untouched
Florida landscape. The Florida Highwaymen painted wind-bent palm trees, serene sunsets, churning oceans and bright red Poinciana trees. They painted from their garages and back yards on inexpensive Upson board and then on the weekends they would travel and sell their Highwaymen paintings to hotels, offices, businesses and individuals who appreciated the artwork for around $25 a piece.
Collecting Florida Highwaymen art has become an exciting, but often expensive, hobby. The market for an original work of art by a Florida Highwayman can easily bring $5,000 or more. Some of the Highwaymen who are still living have resumed painting to meet the continuing demand for their work. Please take your time to browse our site for more information, or search above to find exactly what you are looking for.
Florida Highwaymen News
16 May 2012 at 1:54pmHighwaymen to be awarded Hall of Fame's Medallions
TCPalm
Its mission is to promote the Highwaymen as a unit under their Florida Artist Hall of Fame designation throughout Florida and out of state. Among the first projects to be considered for the non-profit is a traveling art exhibit of Highwaymen paintings.
11 May 2012 at 6:32pm
Tampabay.com
One of famed Florida Highwaymen to show his craft in Ozona
Tampabay.com
Lewis is one of the Florida Highwaymen, a group of African-American artists famous for painting landscapes of local scenes in the 1950s and 1960s. Shunned by traditional art galleries and museums, the artists sold the pieces from the trunks of their ...
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11 May 2012 at 10:35am
Florida Highwayman Artist Visits Ozona Saturday
Patch.com
Robert L. Lewis, 71, one of the 26 landscape artists known as the Florida Highwaymen, will demonstrate his painting technique and sign autographs Saturday at Antiques & Uniques of Ozona. By Sunde Farquhar The painting, "Honeymoon Island" by Florida ...
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22 Apr 2012 at 3:01am
Anthony Westbury: Fame comes calling for the Highwaymen
TCPalm
... It looks as if the Florida Highwaymen could get a lot more famous very soon. The loosely affiliated group of African American artists from Fort Pierce and Gifford, who took to the highways in the 1950s and 60s to sell their landscape paintings, ...
