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
2 Sep 2010 at 11:01pmSaddle up for Pioneer Days
Tbo.com
Butler and other highwaymen sold their works on roadsides for as little as $10. Today his works sell for thousands of dollars. Butler was inducted into the ...
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30 Aug 2010 at 12:02am
TK Wetherell forms education research center
Daytona Beach News-Journal
"The Art of the Highwaymen" will be Sept. 14 from 2 to 3:30 pm as Florida artist Mary Ann Carroll demonstrates her painting techniques. ...
27 Aug 2010 at 8:57am
UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT
St. Augustine Record
... American art pottery, flow blue china, majolica, vintage and contemporary jewelry, kitsch, and a collection of Florida Highwaymen paintings. ...
8 Aug 2010 at 7:13pm
Orlando Sentinel
Time to take to the highway
Orlando Sentinel
The primary self-taught Florida Highwaymen artists, known for their stylistic Florida landscape paintings, will return to ...
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