Attendees of the Orange County Regional History Center’s Florida Highwaymen Meet and Greet event on December 12, 2015, admire the paintings of the late Highwayman artist James Gibson. The Space Launch ...

If you traveled by way of Florida's Route 1 in the '60s and '70s, you might have encountered young African-American landscape artists selling oil paintings of an idealized, candy-colored, Kennedy-era ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the original "Florida Highwaymen" will soon leave his mark on Gainesville. Al Black, one of the original nine "Highwaymen," a group of young African-American painters from South Florida who ...

The fascinating story of black artists whose flamboyant colors, ocean waves, and swaying palms defined Florida for a generation of tourists.

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, ...

“We Dream a World: African American Landscape Painters of Mid-Century Florida, The Highwaymen” is the heavyweight title of a dreamy exhibition at Selby Botanical Gardens. Curated by Radiah Lovette ...

COUNTY THIS WEEKEND, THERE WILL BE A UNIQUE DISPLAY OF ARTWORK FROM THE HIGHWAYMEN FOR A ONE DAY ONLY EXHIBITION. HERE TO TELL US MORE ABOUT THIS YEAR’S ART SHOW. AND SALE IS FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE ...

To the left of the Sarasota City Commission chambers, two long, skinny Florida Pine trees stretch toward the sky, alone in marshland that shines gold in the daylight. Near a hallway that leads to city ...