The grit, talent, and vision of the Florida Highwaymen created an art form that is the essence of the American success story. With humble beginnings as a local art movement borne in the 1950s along ...

One of the original "Florida Highwaymen" will soon leave his mark on Gainesville. Al Black, one of the original nine "Highwaymen," a group of young African-American painters from South Florida who ...

Decades ago, the Florida Highwaymen painted their way into Sunshine State art history with their talent, resourcefulness and creativity. While fewer than half the original Highwaymen artists are still ...

One of the few remaining Florida Highwaymen, Albert "Al" Black, died May 12 at the age of 77, according to the A.E. Backus Museum & Gallery. That leaves four of the original 26 artists who are still ...

I remember being transfixed when I first learned about the Florida Highwaymen during a 2001 talk by photographer and author Gary Monroe of Daytona Beach, who called the painters “perhaps the last ...

The Florida Highwaymen painters became known for quickly creating vivid scenes of wild Florida. The works, often still wet, were sold from the trunks of the artists’ cars along U.S. Highway 1 for as ...

While the Florida Highwaymen got their start on the Treasure Coast, this group of artists are emblems of Black history in Florida. To honor their legacy, the Florida Highwaymen Foundation is taking ...

Famed Highwaymen painters will exhibit and sell their vibrant works of an unspoiled Florida on March 22-23 in Pompano Beach. The self-taught African-American painters from Fort Pierce will set up, ...

If you traveled by way of Florida's Route 1 in the '60s and '70s, you might have encountered young African-American landscape artists selling oil paintings of an idealized, candy-colored, Kennedy-era ...

In the 1960s and '70s, if you were in a doctor's office, or a funeral home, or a motel in Florida, chances are a landscape painting hung on the wall. Palms arching over the water, or moonlight on an ...

The grit, talent, and vision of the Florida Highwaymen created an art form that is the essence of the American success story. With humble beginnings as a local art movement borne in the 1950s along ...