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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — From the 1950s to the 1980s, 26 self-taught Black artists -- including one woman -- painted vivid landscapes and seascapes depicting the scenery of old Florida. The artists became ...

The Polk Museum of Art will display close to 70 works from the Florida Highwaymen in an exhibition entitled “The Art of the Highwaymen: From the Woodsby Family Collection.” The exhibit highlights ...

Florida Highwaymen Museum renovations are expected to begin in April, but keeping the Fort Pierce art gallery open relies in part on people buying a $33 specialty license plate that honors the Black ...

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 ...

Florida's Highwaymen artists have been recognized with numerous exhibitions in major museums, several books and a television documentary. Even with this widespread notoriety, amazing stories about ...

The Florida Highwaymen made their living selling their paintings to motel owners and housewives along Florida’s booming east coast in the 1950s and ’60s. Back then, their crude scenes of herons and ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...