The Florida Highwaymen

With the polar vortex in ye olde Vermont and two heavy snowfalls already, I’m writing about warm-us-up topics. We’ll have more than enough snow for a white Christmas and ample time to freeze between then and mud season. On Thursday, I reviewed a Caravaggio exhibition in Florida, and today I’ll write about Florida’s feast of homegrown art by a group of black artists called the Highwaymen. This small, enterprising crew, many from Fort Pierce, on the coast north of West Palm Beach, produced thousands of landscapes, seascapes, and swampscapes from the late 1940s into the ’80s.