Unsealed Profiles: The Highwaymen
How twenty-six entrepreneurial Black landscape painters made their way to the Florida Artist Hall of Fame
In our inaugural episode of Unsealed Profiles and in honor of Black History Month, let's learn a bit about a group of Florida artists known as the Highwaymen.
This group of young Black American painters from the Ft. Pierce, Florida area began painting and selling their work out of their cars along Florida's highways in the 1950s, earning them the group's nickname and eventually ending up in the Florida Artist Hall of Fame.
Unsealed Profiles: The Highwaymen
To learn more:
Museum of Florida History Highwaymen Collection