Highway Man Painting
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Depending on how long you have lived in Florida, you may or may not have heard of the Highwaymen. The group consisted of 25 men and one woman, all African-American, who painted Florida landscapes from
the mid-1950s through the mid-1980s. The Highwaymen often painted from memory as they captured scenes
of the natural Florida they had grown up with. They sold the artwork door to door, or out of their car trunks,
mostly along A1A and U.S. 1 on Florida's east coast from Daytona Beach to Miami. The work is now featured in
museums, traveling exhibits, galleries and private collections throughout the state and country. In 2009, the painter
Al Black found God. His later paintings all have one thing in common - three birds, representing the Trinity, which are also included in this painting.