Florida Highwaymen Painters
January 25 — May 17, 2026
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
thewestmoreland.org
“Florida Highwaymen Painters” features 26 self-taught Black artists who produced and sold paintings of Florida’s landscapes from the 1950s through the 1980s. The artists, excluded from traditional galleries during the era of segregation, established an independent system of marketing and distributing their work. They sold their still-wet paintings door-to-door, in offices and hotels, and along highways to reach tourists, new residents, and local buyers.
In 2004, all 26 artists were inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, affirming their place in the broader American art story. The exhibition examines the artistic, social, and economic contexts that shaped their work and highlights how creative practice functioned as a pathway to opportunity and self-determination.
See more here: https://thewestmoreland.org/…/florida-highwaymen-painters/
[Image: Mary Ann Carroll, Low Tide, around 1965. Oil on board. Collection of Jonathan Otto.]
