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FLORIDA HIGHWAYMEN Regional Landscape Artists A Tale of Art and Entrepreneurship 1950s1990s+ Hierarchy of Art History Painting--Religious, Mythological, and Allegorical Portraiture Genre Everyday Scenes Landscape Still

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FLORIDA HIGHWAYMEN

Regional Landscape Artists A Tale of Art and Entrepreneurship 1950s—1990s+

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Hierarchy of Art

  • History Painting--Religious, Mythological, and Allegorical
  • Portraiture
  • Genre Everyday Scenes
  • Landscape
  • Still Life
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Artist Classifications

  • Folk
  • Outsider
  • Art Brut
  • Mentally Ill
  • Intuitive
  • Marginal
  • Naïve
  • Visionary
  • Autodidactic
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Landscape Art

  • Definition
  • Elements
  • Techniques
  • Perspective
  • Scaling
  • Special Categories
  • Luminism
  • Hudson River School
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Grafton Tyler Brown 1841—1918

Painter, Lithographer, and Cartographer

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Grafton T. Brown – Lower Falls Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

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Robert S. Duncanson 1821—1872 Painter and Photographer

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Robert S. Duncanson – Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River

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Edward M. Bannister 1828—1901 Painter, Barber, Tinter

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Edward M. Bannister – Sunset Scene

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Henry O. Tanner 1859—1937 Painter

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Henry O. Tanner – Sand Dunes at Sunset

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Norma Gloria Morgan 1928—2016 Painter, Printmaker, Etcher, and Engraver

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Norma Gloria Morgan – Catskill Winter

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Social Environment—Jim Crow South

  • Segregated South
  • Agricultural Labor
  • Low Wages
  • Minimal Opportunities
  • Uniquely Multi-Cultural Environment
  • Determined To Make A Living Doing Something Else
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Florida Photography

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Confirmed Highwaymen (Deceased)

Curtis Arnett Hezekiah Baker Al Black Ellis Buckner Robert Butler Mary Ann Carroll Johnny Daniels Willie Daniels Rodney Demps James Gibson Alfred Hair Isaac Knight Robert L. Lewis John Maynor Roy McLendon Alfonso Moran Harold Newton Lemuel Newton Sam Newton Livingston Roberts Willie Reagan Cornell Smith Charles Walker Sylvester Wells Charles Wheeler

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Florida Landscape Features Specific (Time of Day and Season of The Year)

  • Interface of Land and Water—Rivers, Streams, Swamps,

Mangroves, Marshes, Beaches, Thickets, and Lagoons

  • Plants—Poinciana Trees, Live Oaks, Palms, Spanish Moss, Wild

Orchids

  • Fauna especially Birds
  • Sky—Clouds and Sun, occasionally Moon
  • Weather
  • Spiritual Reverence
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Artistic Focus for Highwaymen

  • Horizontal Orientation
  • Control of Light—Time of Day and Season of the year
  • Realistic Coloring
  • Weather As A Compositional Component
  • Diffuse Details
  • Scenes in Transition
  • Elements of Impressionism—Diffuse Details
  • Elements of Luminism--Attention to details and Hidden Brushstrokes
  • Emotionally Evocative
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Commercial Elements of Highwaymen Money As Motivator “A Painting Wasn’t Finished Until It Was Sold”

  • Factory Process—Artist, Framers, Salesmen
  • Economical Materials-Upson Boards and Crown Molding For

Framing

  • Direct Sales
  • Dedicated Sales Force
  • Economical Prices
  • Volume and Speed were paramount
  • Quality was secondary
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Contrasting Economic Models

  • A. E. Backus Model

Gallery and Commissioned Sales Individual Pieces Slow/Laborious (One per Week) Moderate to High Price Points ($200--$500) Solitary Effort

Alfred Hair Model

Direct and “Door to Door” Sales Mass Production—Assembly Line Division of Labor Fast—Multiple Paintings per Day Economical (Cheap) Communal Effort

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Alfred Hair 1941--1970

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Alfred Hair – Water Next to the Ocean

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Harold Newton 1934—1994

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Harold Newton

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Alfred Ernest “Bean” Backus 1906-1990

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Alfred E. Backus

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Al Black, Jr. 1947

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Al Black, Jr.

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Jim Fitch—Marketing Expert

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Assessing Value of Highwaymen Art (Art in General)

  • Size (“Bigger Is Better”)
  • Pretty (Plain or Elaborate?)
  • Unique or Formulaic
  • Old or Recent?
  • Signed or Unsigned?
  • Unique Elements
  • Condition Issues
  • Framed or Unframed?
  • Market Conditions
  • Authenticity—Forgery, Fraud, and Fakes
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Johnny L. Daniels Morning Backwater

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Al Black Jr. Untitled

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Al Black Jr. Backwater Scene

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Al Black, Jr. Lagoon Scene At Sunset