Twenty-six men from the Fort Pierce area — many staring down lives toiling in citrus groves and packing houses, the kinds of jobs available to Black men in the Jim Crow South of the 1950s — instead started an art movement.
Some of the thousands of landscape paintings created by The Florida Highwaymen are on display at the Museum of Art – DeLand, where a talk is scheduled from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 13. The gallery opens at 5:30 and tickets for non-members are $10.
Gary Monroe, author of “The Highwaymen: Florida’s African-American Landscape Painters,” will discuss the works, the cultural context behind them, and their place in American art history…