Art Talk 148 | Florida Highwaymen | 25 May 2023

Featuring the Florida Highwaymen, a group of 26 African American landscape artists in Florida, who may have created a body of work of over 200,000 paintings, challenging many racial and cultural barriers. Mostly from the Fort Pierce area, they painted landscapes and made a living selling them door-to-door to businesses and individuals throughout Florida from the mid-1950s through the 1980s. They also sold their work from the trunks of their cars along the eastern coastal roads (A1A and US 1). We feature art from:
• Alfred Hair (1941–1970)
• Roy McLendon (b. 1932)
• Charles “Chico” Wheeler (b. 1946)
• Sylvester Wells (b. 1938)
• James Gibson (1938–2017)
• John Maynor (1948–2016)
• Harold Newton (1934–1994)
• Mary Ann Carroll (1940–2019)


Website: https://www.floridahighwaymenartwork.com
https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com


Images and other media are only used by SMA, Inc. for non-commercial educational purposes. SMA Art Talks have been a popular segment in our weekly Town Halls since April 2020 when our employees began working from home under the COVID lockdown. The Town Halls proved to be so popular, we continue to deliver a weekly event to all our remote associates and guests.


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