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Exhibición de Florida Highwaymen el 21 de Febrero en el Pensacola Museum of Art |
Florida Highwaymen exhibition opens February 21 at the Pensacola Museum of Art Pensacola, Fla. – February 15, 2012 - With bold colors and confident brushstrokes, the roadside paintings of the Florida Highwaymen captured the spirit and natural scenic beauty of Old Florida at a time when segregation prevented them from showing their work in their local galleries. An exhibition of this work will be shown at the Pensacola Museum of Art February 21 – March 17, 2012. In an era marked by racism and poverty, the Florida Highwaymen, a group of 26 African-Americans, broke convention and escaped a life of manual labor to paint beautiful, iconic landscapes. Starting in the mid-1950s, these self-taught entrepreneurs mentored each other while they painted on basic, improvised materials such as Upson board for canvasses and used crown molding and other scrap wood for frames. Most of the Highwaymen lived in Fort Pierce or other nearby small towns in South Florida. Unable to show in local galleries, the entrepreneurial spirit drove the Florida Highwaymen to sell their art from car trunks along area roadways, giving the group its name. This exhibition will be drawn from private and public collections. The PMA is located at 407 S. Jefferson St., Pensacola, Fla. Regular Museum hours: Tues. – Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sat. 12 to 5 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for students and active duty military. Children under 5 admitted free. Admission is free on Tuesdays. For more information, call (850) 432-6247 or visit www.pensacolamuseumofart.org. |