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Meet the Florida Highwaymen who sold their art from cars
Learn of Florida Highwaymen from Fort Pierce and Vero Beach, Black artists who sold their landscape paintings from car trunks during segregation.
The Florida Highwaymen are a group of 26 Black artists with deep ties to Fort Pierce and Gifford whose paintings helped define a distinct chapter in Florida art history.
Beginning in the 1950s, they sold landscape paintings directly to buyers instead of relying on galleries, often carrying their work in the trunks of their cars and stopping along roadsides or going door to door.
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