Floirda Highwaymen

The Florida Highwaymen

Primarily based in the Fort Pierce area, the Highwaymen painted landscapes and made a living by selling their artwork door-to-door to businesses and individuals throughout Florida from the mid-1950s through the 1980s. 

The Highwaymen created many relatively inexpensive landscape paintings They used construction materials instead of art supplies.  Galleries would exhibit their work, so they sold it in towns, cities, and along roadsides, mostly selling paintings directly from the trunks of their cars along the eastern coastal roads, including A1A and US 1, often while the paintings were still wet from the easel. Their success is particularly remarkable, considering they started their careers during the racially turbulent and violent 1950s in Florida amidst the social conditions of the civil rights movement. They are often called "The Last Great American Art Movement of the 20th Century."

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