FORT PIERCE — Just a few weeks after appearing at the annual Jetson Highwaymen Show, one of the few remaining legendary Black artists from that group has died, family members said. Isaac Knight, 80, ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Selling their landscapes along the roadside in the 1960s and 1970s, a group of African-American artists became known as the “Highwaymen.” As some have passed away, there’s an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Florida Highwaymen were a group of loosely affiliated, mostly self-taught Black painters, 25 men and one woman, Mary Ann Carroll, in the “original” group. ByChadd Scott, Contributor. Forbes ...

The Highwaymen were a group of African-American artists in the '60s and '70s who sold idyllic paintings by the roadside of Florida's Route 1. Back... The Landscape Art Legacy Of Florida's Highwaymen ...

The color first strikes anyone looking at a Highwaymen painting. They appear painted with citrus fruit. Tangerine sunsets. Lime ocean swells. Mango skies. The Highwaymen worked in a Technicolor, ...

Florida Highwaymen Al Black died on May 12, 2025. The last four Florida Highwaymen are Willie Reagan, Robert L. Lewis Jr., Sam Newton and Curtis Arnett. Jim Crow laws prohibited the Black artists from ...

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 ...

Today, their paintings hang in the White House. But in the 1960s, they sold them, often still wet, from the trunks of their cars. The Highwaymen: Segregation And Speed-Painting In The Sunshine State ...