The Highwaymen
Subtitle: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780813022819
Subjects: Art styles: c First World War to 1960; Black studies; Folk art; Painting & paintings; History - General; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Landscape; American - African American; American - African-American; 20th century; African American painting; Florida; Landscape painting, American
Description: "The Highwaymen introduces a group of young black artists who painted their way out of the despair awaiting them in the citrus groves and packing houses of 1950s Florida. As their story recaptures the imagination of Floridians and their paintings fetch ever-escalating prices, the legacy of their freshly conceived landscapes exerts a new and powerful influence on the popular conception of the Sunshine State.".

"While the value of Highwaymen paintings has soared in recent years, until now no authoritative account of the lives and work of these black Florida artists has existed. Emerging in the late 1950s, the Highwaymen created idyllic, quickly realized images of the Florida dream and peddled some 100,000 of them from the trunks of their cars."--BOOK JACKET.