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
18 Jan 2012 at 3:39pmOrlando Weekly
Artist on the outside
Orlando Weekly
Black was one of the legendary Florida Highwaymen, a group of African-American traveling artists who peddled their idyllic, stylized Florida landscape paintings door-to-door and from the trunks of their cars, beginning in the late 1950s.
2 Jan 2012 at 5:06am
Kids Love Art Auction in Fort Pierce Jan. 14 benefits Children's Home Society ...
TCPalm
By Isadora Rangel Highwaymen artists teamed up in July with the Children's Home Society of the Treasure Coast to teach children in distressed situations how to paint their trademark Florida landscapes ? as well as a few life lessons.
