Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

ENNS, CATHERINE.
The Journey of the Highwaymen.
New York: Abrams, 2009.
336 pp., 419 illus. (204 color plates.) 26 artists discussed. 4to (23 x 29 cm.; 9.1 x 11.3 in.), cloth, d.j.

FORT LAUDERDALE (FL). Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art.
Highwaymen: Newton and Hair - Jim Crow and the American Dream in the Sunshine State.
June 1-November 30, 2006.
96 pp. exhib. cat., 47 color plates of paintings by Harold Newton and Alfred Hair, texts by curator Gary Monroe and Annegreth Nill. Oblong 4to (25 x 30 cm.). Limited ed. of 2000.

HAMBRICK, JOHN and JACK HAMBRICK (producer).
The Highwaymen: Florida's Outsider Artists (Video).
Everglades Media, 2002.
Documentary video about a group of young, untrained African American landscape painters that emerged from the small central Florida town of Fort Pierce during the late 1950s and early '60s. Segregation and racist art world attitudes prevented them from working with traditional art galleries. Instead, they traveled throughout the state selling their paintings out of the trunks of their cars. Florida back-country and sub-tropical wilderness scenes: coastal savannahs, hardwood hammocks, uninhabited tannin-stained rivers, trees against sunset streaked clouds and skies. Interviews with: Mary Ann Carroll, Hezekiah Baker, Al Black, Robert Butler, Rodney Demps, James Gibson, Roy McLendon, Livingston Roberts. Narrated by Spencer Christian. NOTE: DVD Bonus Features include a Gallery of 56 Paintings from 14 Highwaymen, and Biographies of artists Alfred Hair, Harold Newton and the white outsider artist who mentored the group at the very beginning Bean Backus. [Distributed by Janson Media, Harrison Park, NJ.] VHS-NTSC/DVD: color, sd.; 58 min.

MONROE, GARY.
The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
128 pp., illus., 63 color plates, personal reminiscences by some of the artists. A history of the 25 men and 1 woman from the Fort Pierce area who constitute the group of African American vernacular painters known as the Highwaymen. Included: Alfred Hair, Harold Newton, Mary Ann Carroll, Hezekiah Baker, Al Black, Robert Butler, Rodney Demps, James Gibson, Roy McLendon, Livingston Roberts, Willie Reagan, Cornell Smith, Alfonso Moran, John Maynor, et al. Oblong 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.