EDITOR'S NOTE: To celebrate Black History month, we will be reposting our series on African Americans who had a major impact on Florida. This story originally published in 2020. FORT PIERCE — Harold ...

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 ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Their work has brightened canvases for decades, but only recently have Florida's famed Highwaymen artists received the recognition they deserve. WPTV reporter Jon Shainman recently ...

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 ...

NEWS. HAPPENING THIS MORNING ON THE TREASURE COAST, CONSTRUCTION BEGINS FOR THE NEW FLORIDA HIGHWAYMEN MUSEUM IN FORT PIERCE. THIS IS A LONG TIME COMING. THE JACKIE L KANAN SENIOR BUILDING ON AVENUE D ...

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 ...

Roger Lightle brings a collection of artwork from the Florida Highwaymen. Collecting Florida Highwaymen art has become an exciting, but often expensive, hobby. The market for an original work of art ...

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 ...