Highwaymen
13 July - 13 August 2021
Charles Moffett
511 Canal Street, NYC
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Charles Moffett is pleased to present a new exhibition of works by the Florida Highwaymen: a Jim Crow-era cohort of 26 self-taught Black landscape painters who—in light of discrimination-based gallery rejection—established a booming market by selling original, still-wet paintings out of their trunks along the Florida coast.
Innately gifted at technical painting, the members of the group collectively channeled their skills into a distinctive, marketable aesthetic, selling door-to-door to homes and businesses and out of their cars in towns along the main Florida highways. The result is a historically important body of folk art that embodies one group’s pioneering ability to carve out economic opportunity for themselves through the creation of an iconic regional genre of cultural objects whose versatile desirability began, by design, in highway diners; beauty parlors; roadside motels; and kitsch- filled South Florida homes.
Learn more in the above-linked press release.
A preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Image reuse must be with credit to Charles Moffett, unless otherwise noted in the file title.
