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(343, 1, '2022-07-13 07:49:43', '2022-07-13 07:49:43', '<div style=\"color:red;margin-bottom:5px;\">This blog has been written and contributed by <strong>Dale A. Brill, Ph.D. (Group founder and administrator of the facebook group:  Florida Highwaymen)</strong>. It is with great appreciation to Dale Brill that we use this work as the inaugural blog in the launch of this website.</div>\r\n<div style=\"color:white;text-align:justify\">\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">With the growth of Florida Highwaymen enthusiasts showing no signs of slowing, a guide to the landscape of the journey seems worthwhile. It is offered with the hope of generating contributions from others with different and deeper insights—even contradiction. This chapter, like the others, is a <i>work-in-progress</i> to be improved by the comments and adaptations driven by changes in the natural evolution of the Florida Highwaymen experience.</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">Consider this just one perspective among many possible takes. Word choice throughout the guide attempts to remind readers of the uniqueness of every Highwaymen painting acquisition. The use of “may,” “tend to,” and “often” signal generalizations not rules. Without exception, every interaction is different. Yours will be, too.</div>\r\n\r\n<h3>“MARKET VALUE AND PRICES”</h3>\r\n\r\n<div><i>Bottom line: A painting is worth what someone is willing to pay for it</i>. That said, the value assigned to a painting is generally based on a calculus of several variables with two factors perhaps the most influential: recent sales prices and expected future demand.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Auction houses represent an easy opportunity to evaluate recent sales prices. Visit an auction house’s website and find their link to “Past Auctions.” From there you can evaluate recent “gavel prices,” which does not include the auctioneer’s premium or taxes. The premium is the auctioneer’s sales commission, ranging from 20% to 28%. Then add 7.5% taxes for state and local taxes (which vary by geography, of course).</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Example: I “won” a Sam Newton painting at auction for $2,400. I ended up paying $3,096. The auctioneer’s 20% premium added $480. Taxes of 7.5% added $216.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>What is the market value? Despite a gavel price (winning bid) of $2,400, the painting is “worth” (to me) $3,096. </div>\r\n\r\n<div>In the example above, my experience and data analysis prior to the auction aligned with the auctioneer’s estimated or projected price which appears on the website. It seemed reasonable to expect the market value of the painting to fall between $2,000 and $4,000. That is a big range against which a painting can fall short or greatly exceed.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Calculations of “market value” can be influenced by several factors:</div>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><div><u>The Artist</u></div>\r\n<ol type=\'A\'>\r\n    <li><div> <i>Demand & Supply.</i> Although there is no certainty about the number of Highwaymen paintings produced (estimates have ranged from 200,000 or more), readers exposed to the economic theory of supply and demand should recognize the impact that perceived scarcity—and other mental gymnastics—can have on prices.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Livingston Roberts passed in 2004. Compared to the few remaining Highwaymen still painting, supply of his work is clearly limited. However, the “living or dead” criterion is but one factor. Another may be the length of time the artist painted, such as Poncho Moran who stopped painting early to follow the allure of being a professional gambler. As a result, the price of his paintings can rival Harold Newton but not from the perspective of artistry.</div></li> \r\n\r\n    <li><div><i>Demonstration of talent.</i> Not every painting reflects the artist’s best effort. The Highwaymen story is multidimensional, including the practical role of making money for the artists. The more they painted, the more they made. Paintings that are viewed as representing the artist’s full capabilities will command higher prices that may have been produced in a hurry to capture the opportunity represented by immediate demand from the tourist traffic during season.</div></li> \r\n\r\n    <li> <div><i>Style.</i> Very similar to “demonstration of talent,” prices for Harold Newton’s paintings reflect, to a great degree, the degree of complexity and mastery demonstrated in his paintings. His work now typically requires investments of $10,000 or more. In contrast, Rodney Demps’ style is just now breaking the $1,000 threshold for exceptional pieces and less than $750 for direct purchases his more traditional work. Demps’ style, which might earn him the moniker “Dali of the Highwaymen,” appears at times crude in contrast to Harold Newton’s realism. Critics may conclude Demps had less talent than Harold Newton while fans may prefer to conclude that he simply saw Florida through a very different lens and it translated accordingly through his paintings. </div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<li><div><u>Scene.</u> Paintings featuring poincianas might be considered the quintessential Highwaymen scene. After several hundred, you start to see the common themes featured across all 26 painters: Rio Mar, River Road, River Inlets, etc. Within a painter’s portfolio, there will be scenes that are featured more than others. For example, Al Black’s work features three birds in flight for the Trinity (although older pieces do not seem bound by this trademark element). Willie Daniels has produced many river/inlet scenes, each with skeletal dock pilings emerging from the shore. Demand for a scene that diverges from those typically associated with an artist often command higher prices. A Willie Daniels piece that features other components, such as a building or person, can be attractive to collectors looking for variation it creates.</div></li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Size.</u> Jumbo or larger pieces (e.g., 24 x 48) command more than smaller pieces (e.g., 16 x 20) generally as the greater space tends to impact the complexity of the work and featured scenes depicted.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>One Florida Highwaymen collector has speculated value (sales price) using a standard calculation based on the surface area of the painting. Example: a 16 x 20 painting by Harold Newton would have a surface area of 320 square inches. At a calculated value per square inch of $17.00, the painting would be worth $5,440. Such an approach as this, of course, would need to reflect trends in sales over time to adjust the “value per square inch” and take into consideration the subjective factors addressed elsewhere in this guide.</div> </li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Medium.</u> The quintessential media associated with Highwaymen paintings are Upson and Masonite board found on construction sites and the local lumber yard. In fact, painting on Upson is considered by expert Kathleen Piowaty Fredrick to be a criterion for inclusion as an Original Highwaymen. Those artists painting in the same style today missed the necessity of Upson and Masonite. Canvas had long been a luxury; as a result, canvas tends to signal the difference between “early” and “later” paintings by the same artist.</div></li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Timing.</u> If buying at auction, note that the prices appear to soften during June – August when the Snowbirds (Northern residents who flock to Florida for the winter) return home. The premise is that the drop in high-tier (read: money) demand softens bidding at auctions; and otherwise puts on hold the buying from local galleries or individuals. My theory suggests that supply then builds up until the late fall return of buyers and the corresponding increase in the frequency of auctions creates the perceived scarcity in March and April. Surely somebody can check me on that.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Another timing dynamic is consistent with any the first rule of negotiation: The side that can live with the answer being “no” has the upper hand: Buyers in a hurry to secure a painting tend to negotiate less and pay more; and sellers in no hurry to part with a piece tend to be better at resisting low offers.</div>\r\n</li>\r\n<li><div><u>Source.</u> Although the tide is turning, few are the buyers willing to spend $4,000 or more without personally laying eyes on the painting. This has a general effect of chilling overall demand. Exceptions include transactions from trusted sources, such as the auction houses in Vero Beach and elsewhere in Florida, or sellers with whom a track record of quality are established or willingness to accept returns, which is a recommended criterion for purchasing a painting on eBay.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Galleries tend to demand higher prices than private sellers or dealers with costs such as rent, staff, and utilities. It is not uncommon to see a painting purchased at auction for $2,250 offered weeks later at a gallery for $4,750. Dealers operating out of their homes, vehicles, or eBay often provide opportunity to save money, but the risk can be greater than a gallery with a brick-and-mortar presence with greater exposure to reputation damage if a customer isn’t happy. Finally, private sellers represent the best opportunity for the best pricing. It’s almost too rare to mention now but finding a Highwaymen painting at a thrift store or neighborhood garage sale is not entirely out of the question. A significant source of supply comes from family members who find themselves needing to find homes for pieces from a deceased loved one’s collection. These sellers are highly coveted by auction houses, dealers, and direct buyers alike. </div>\r\n</li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Motivation.</u> Investors willingness to pay differs from collectors with even greater variation seen among enthusiasts. Investors are motivated to maximize the return on investment--buy low(er), sell high(er). Investors will be more aware of demand and trends in prices with limits tied to the likelihood of getting the targeted profit margin at resale.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Collectors may be in the market to feed their obsession or complement their existing portfolio with work from a missing artist. A unique scene or prevalence of a coveted technique combined with enough disposable income can blow the expected price range out of the water, especially when two collectors are locked on the same piece.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Enthusiasts tend to buy what they love with an eye on the budget. While a jumbo Harold Newton may be out of reach, a smaller piece by another artist becomes a family treasure and conversation piece for years to come.</div>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<div>All things evolve. Fluctuations in the economy and disruption created by technology integration, such as virtual reality and the metaverse, will surely push the artworld across new horizons. The Florida Highwaymen experience will change with it, and the landscape described in this guide will need to reflect adaptations.</div> \r\n</div>', 'Latest Blog', 'In melanie bonajo’s Dutch Pavilion, Naked Bodies Touch, Writhe, and Heal at the Venice Biennale', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-07-13 07:49:43', '2022-07-13 07:49:43', '', 190, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=343', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(344, 1, '2022-07-13 07:51:49', '2022-07-13 07:51:49', '<h1 style=\"color:#cab43c\">A Guide to Acquiring and Treasuring the Art of the Florida Highwaymen</h1>\r\n<div style=\"color:red;margin-bottom:5px;\">This blog has been written and contributed by <strong>Dale A. Brill, Ph.D. (Group founder and administrator of the facebook group:  Florida Highwaymen)</strong>. It is with great appreciation to Dale Brill that we use this work as the inaugural blog in the launch of this website.</div>\r\n<div style=\"color:white;text-align:justify\">\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">With the growth of Florida Highwaymen enthusiasts showing no signs of slowing, a guide to the landscape of the journey seems worthwhile. It is offered with the hope of generating contributions from others with different and deeper insights—even contradiction. This chapter, like the others, is a <i>work-in-progress</i> to be improved by the comments and adaptations driven by changes in the natural evolution of the Florida Highwaymen experience.</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">Consider this just one perspective among many possible takes. Word choice throughout the guide attempts to remind readers of the uniqueness of every Highwaymen painting acquisition. The use of “may,” “tend to,” and “often” signal generalizations not rules. Without exception, every interaction is different. Yours will be, too.</div>\r\n\r\n<h3>“MARKET VALUE AND PRICES”</h3>\r\n\r\n<div><i>Bottom line: A painting is worth what someone is willing to pay for it</i>. That said, the value assigned to a painting is generally based on a calculus of several variables with two factors perhaps the most influential: recent sales prices and expected future demand.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Auction houses represent an easy opportunity to evaluate recent sales prices. Visit an auction house’s website and find their link to “Past Auctions.” From there you can evaluate recent “gavel prices,” which does not include the auctioneer’s premium or taxes. The premium is the auctioneer’s sales commission, ranging from 20% to 28%. Then add 7.5% taxes for state and local taxes (which vary by geography, of course).</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Example: I “won” a Sam Newton painting at auction for $2,400. I ended up paying $3,096. The auctioneer’s 20% premium added $480. Taxes of 7.5% added $216.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>What is the market value? Despite a gavel price (winning bid) of $2,400, the painting is “worth” (to me) $3,096. </div>\r\n\r\n<div>In the example above, my experience and data analysis prior to the auction aligned with the auctioneer’s estimated or projected price which appears on the website. It seemed reasonable to expect the market value of the painting to fall between $2,000 and $4,000. That is a big range against which a painting can fall short or greatly exceed.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Calculations of “market value” can be influenced by several factors:</div>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><div><u>The Artist</u></div>\r\n<ol type=\'A\'>\r\n    <li><div> <i>Demand & Supply.</i> Although there is no certainty about the number of Highwaymen paintings produced (estimates have ranged from 200,000 or more), readers exposed to the economic theory of supply and demand should recognize the impact that perceived scarcity—and other mental gymnastics—can have on prices.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Livingston Roberts passed in 2004. Compared to the few remaining Highwaymen still painting, supply of his work is clearly limited. However, the “living or dead” criterion is but one factor. Another may be the length of time the artist painted, such as Poncho Moran who stopped painting early to follow the allure of being a professional gambler. As a result, the price of his paintings can rival Harold Newton but not from the perspective of artistry.</div></li> \r\n\r\n    <li><div><i>Demonstration of talent.</i> Not every painting reflects the artist’s best effort. The Highwaymen story is multidimensional, including the practical role of making money for the artists. The more they painted, the more they made. Paintings that are viewed as representing the artist’s full capabilities will command higher prices that may have been produced in a hurry to capture the opportunity represented by immediate demand from the tourist traffic during season.</div></li> \r\n\r\n    <li> <div><i>Style.</i> Very similar to “demonstration of talent,” prices for Harold Newton’s paintings reflect, to a great degree, the degree of complexity and mastery demonstrated in his paintings. His work now typically requires investments of $10,000 or more. In contrast, Rodney Demps’ style is just now breaking the $1,000 threshold for exceptional pieces and less than $750 for direct purchases his more traditional work. Demps’ style, which might earn him the moniker “Dali of the Highwaymen,” appears at times crude in contrast to Harold Newton’s realism. Critics may conclude Demps had less talent than Harold Newton while fans may prefer to conclude that he simply saw Florida through a very different lens and it translated accordingly through his paintings. </div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<li><div><u>Scene.</u> Paintings featuring poincianas might be considered the quintessential Highwaymen scene. After several hundred, you start to see the common themes featured across all 26 painters: Rio Mar, River Road, River Inlets, etc. Within a painter’s portfolio, there will be scenes that are featured more than others. For example, Al Black’s work features three birds in flight for the Trinity (although older pieces do not seem bound by this trademark element). Willie Daniels has produced many river/inlet scenes, each with skeletal dock pilings emerging from the shore. Demand for a scene that diverges from those typically associated with an artist often command higher prices. A Willie Daniels piece that features other components, such as a building or person, can be attractive to collectors looking for variation it creates.</div></li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Size.</u> Jumbo or larger pieces (e.g., 24 x 48) command more than smaller pieces (e.g., 16 x 20) generally as the greater space tends to impact the complexity of the work and featured scenes depicted.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>One Florida Highwaymen collector has speculated value (sales price) using a standard calculation based on the surface area of the painting. Example: a 16 x 20 painting by Harold Newton would have a surface area of 320 square inches. At a calculated value per square inch of $17.00, the painting would be worth $5,440. Such an approach as this, of course, would need to reflect trends in sales over time to adjust the “value per square inch” and take into consideration the subjective factors addressed elsewhere in this guide.</div> </li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Medium.</u> The quintessential media associated with Highwaymen paintings are Upson and Masonite board found on construction sites and the local lumber yard. In fact, painting on Upson is considered by expert Kathleen Piowaty Fredrick to be a criterion for inclusion as an Original Highwaymen. Those artists painting in the same style today missed the necessity of Upson and Masonite. Canvas had long been a luxury; as a result, canvas tends to signal the difference between “early” and “later” paintings by the same artist.</div></li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Timing.</u> If buying at auction, note that the prices appear to soften during June – August when the Snowbirds (Northern residents who flock to Florida for the winter) return home. The premise is that the drop in high-tier (read: money) demand softens bidding at auctions; and otherwise puts on hold the buying from local galleries or individuals. My theory suggests that supply then builds up until the late fall return of buyers and the corresponding increase in the frequency of auctions creates the perceived scarcity in March and April. Surely somebody can check me on that.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Another timing dynamic is consistent with any the first rule of negotiation: The side that can live with the answer being “no” has the upper hand: Buyers in a hurry to secure a painting tend to negotiate less and pay more; and sellers in no hurry to part with a piece tend to be better at resisting low offers.</div>\r\n</li>\r\n<li><div><u>Source.</u> Although the tide is turning, few are the buyers willing to spend $4,000 or more without personally laying eyes on the painting. This has a general effect of chilling overall demand. Exceptions include transactions from trusted sources, such as the auction houses in Vero Beach and elsewhere in Florida, or sellers with whom a track record of quality are established or willingness to accept returns, which is a recommended criterion for purchasing a painting on eBay.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Galleries tend to demand higher prices than private sellers or dealers with costs such as rent, staff, and utilities. It is not uncommon to see a painting purchased at auction for $2,250 offered weeks later at a gallery for $4,750. Dealers operating out of their homes, vehicles, or eBay often provide opportunity to save money, but the risk can be greater than a gallery with a brick-and-mortar presence with greater exposure to reputation damage if a customer isn’t happy. Finally, private sellers represent the best opportunity for the best pricing. It’s almost too rare to mention now but finding a Highwaymen painting at a thrift store or neighborhood garage sale is not entirely out of the question. A significant source of supply comes from family members who find themselves needing to find homes for pieces from a deceased loved one’s collection. These sellers are highly coveted by auction houses, dealers, and direct buyers alike. </div>\r\n</li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Motivation.</u> Investors willingness to pay differs from collectors with even greater variation seen among enthusiasts. Investors are motivated to maximize the return on investment--buy low(er), sell high(er). Investors will be more aware of demand and trends in prices with limits tied to the likelihood of getting the targeted profit margin at resale.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Collectors may be in the market to feed their obsession or complement their existing portfolio with work from a missing artist. A unique scene or prevalence of a coveted technique combined with enough disposable income can blow the expected price range out of the water, especially when two collectors are locked on the same piece.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Enthusiasts tend to buy what they love with an eye on the budget. While a jumbo Harold Newton may be out of reach, a smaller piece by another artist becomes a family treasure and conversation piece for years to come.</div>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<div>All things evolve. Fluctuations in the economy and disruption created by technology integration, such as virtual reality and the metaverse, will surely push the artworld across new horizons. The Florida Highwaymen experience will change with it, and the landscape described in this guide will need to reflect adaptations.</div> \r\n</div>', 'Latest Blog', 'In melanie bonajo’s Dutch Pavilion, Naked Bodies Touch, Writhe, and Heal at the Venice Biennale', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-07-13 07:51:49', '2022-07-13 07:51:49', '', 190, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=344', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(345, 1, '2022-07-13 07:55:00', '2022-07-13 07:55:00', '<h1 style=\"color:#cab43c;font-size:2.0rem !important\">A Guide to Acquiring and Treasuring the Art of the Florida Highwaymen</h1>\r\n<div style=\"color:red;margin-bottom:5px;\">This blog has been written and contributed by <strong>Dale A. Brill, Ph.D. (Group founder and administrator of the facebook group:  Florida Highwaymen)</strong>. It is with great appreciation to Dale Brill that we use this work as the inaugural blog in the launch of this website.</div>\r\n<div style=\"color:white;text-align:justify\">\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">With the growth of Florida Highwaymen enthusiasts showing no signs of slowing, a guide to the landscape of the journey seems worthwhile. It is offered with the hope of generating contributions from others with different and deeper insights—even contradiction. This chapter, like the others, is a <i>work-in-progress</i> to be improved by the comments and adaptations driven by changes in the natural evolution of the Florida Highwaymen experience.</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">Consider this just one perspective among many possible takes. Word choice throughout the guide attempts to remind readers of the uniqueness of every Highwaymen painting acquisition. The use of “may,” “tend to,” and “often” signal generalizations not rules. Without exception, every interaction is different. Yours will be, too.</div>\r\n\r\n<h3>“MARKET VALUE AND PRICES”</h3>\r\n\r\n<div><i>Bottom line: A painting is worth what someone is willing to pay for it</i>. That said, the value assigned to a painting is generally based on a calculus of several variables with two factors perhaps the most influential: recent sales prices and expected future demand.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Auction houses represent an easy opportunity to evaluate recent sales prices. Visit an auction house’s website and find their link to “Past Auctions.” From there you can evaluate recent “gavel prices,” which does not include the auctioneer’s premium or taxes. The premium is the auctioneer’s sales commission, ranging from 20% to 28%. Then add 7.5% taxes for state and local taxes (which vary by geography, of course).</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Example: I “won” a Sam Newton painting at auction for $2,400. I ended up paying $3,096. The auctioneer’s 20% premium added $480. Taxes of 7.5% added $216.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>What is the market value? Despite a gavel price (winning bid) of $2,400, the painting is “worth” (to me) $3,096. </div>\r\n\r\n<div>In the example above, my experience and data analysis prior to the auction aligned with the auctioneer’s estimated or projected price which appears on the website. It seemed reasonable to expect the market value of the painting to fall between $2,000 and $4,000. That is a big range against which a painting can fall short or greatly exceed.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Calculations of “market value” can be influenced by several factors:</div>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><div><u>The Artist</u></div>\r\n<ol type=\'A\'>\r\n    <li><div> <i>Demand & Supply.</i> Although there is no certainty about the number of Highwaymen paintings produced (estimates have ranged from 200,000 or more), readers exposed to the economic theory of supply and demand should recognize the impact that perceived scarcity—and other mental gymnastics—can have on prices.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Livingston Roberts passed in 2004. Compared to the few remaining Highwaymen still painting, supply of his work is clearly limited. However, the “living or dead” criterion is but one factor. Another may be the length of time the artist painted, such as Poncho Moran who stopped painting early to follow the allure of being a professional gambler. As a result, the price of his paintings can rival Harold Newton but not from the perspective of artistry.</div></li> \r\n\r\n    <li><div><i>Demonstration of talent.</i> Not every painting reflects the artist’s best effort. The Highwaymen story is multidimensional, including the practical role of making money for the artists. The more they painted, the more they made. Paintings that are viewed as representing the artist’s full capabilities will command higher prices that may have been produced in a hurry to capture the opportunity represented by immediate demand from the tourist traffic during season.</div></li> \r\n\r\n    <li> <div><i>Style.</i> Very similar to “demonstration of talent,” prices for Harold Newton’s paintings reflect, to a great degree, the degree of complexity and mastery demonstrated in his paintings. His work now typically requires investments of $10,000 or more. In contrast, Rodney Demps’ style is just now breaking the $1,000 threshold for exceptional pieces and less than $750 for direct purchases his more traditional work. Demps’ style, which might earn him the moniker “Dali of the Highwaymen,” appears at times crude in contrast to Harold Newton’s realism. Critics may conclude Demps had less talent than Harold Newton while fans may prefer to conclude that he simply saw Florida through a very different lens and it translated accordingly through his paintings. </div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<li><div><u>Scene.</u> Paintings featuring poincianas might be considered the quintessential Highwaymen scene. After several hundred, you start to see the common themes featured across all 26 painters: Rio Mar, River Road, River Inlets, etc. Within a painter’s portfolio, there will be scenes that are featured more than others. For example, Al Black’s work features three birds in flight for the Trinity (although older pieces do not seem bound by this trademark element). Willie Daniels has produced many river/inlet scenes, each with skeletal dock pilings emerging from the shore. Demand for a scene that diverges from those typically associated with an artist often command higher prices. A Willie Daniels piece that features other components, such as a building or person, can be attractive to collectors looking for variation it creates.</div></li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Size.</u> Jumbo or larger pieces (e.g., 24 x 48) command more than smaller pieces (e.g., 16 x 20) generally as the greater space tends to impact the complexity of the work and featured scenes depicted.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>One Florida Highwaymen collector has speculated value (sales price) using a standard calculation based on the surface area of the painting. Example: a 16 x 20 painting by Harold Newton would have a surface area of 320 square inches. At a calculated value per square inch of $17.00, the painting would be worth $5,440. Such an approach as this, of course, would need to reflect trends in sales over time to adjust the “value per square inch” and take into consideration the subjective factors addressed elsewhere in this guide.</div> </li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Medium.</u> The quintessential media associated with Highwaymen paintings are Upson and Masonite board found on construction sites and the local lumber yard. In fact, painting on Upson is considered by expert Kathleen Piowaty Fredrick to be a criterion for inclusion as an Original Highwaymen. Those artists painting in the same style today missed the necessity of Upson and Masonite. Canvas had long been a luxury; as a result, canvas tends to signal the difference between “early” and “later” paintings by the same artist.</div></li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Timing.</u> If buying at auction, note that the prices appear to soften during June – August when the Snowbirds (Northern residents who flock to Florida for the winter) return home. The premise is that the drop in high-tier (read: money) demand softens bidding at auctions; and otherwise puts on hold the buying from local galleries or individuals. My theory suggests that supply then builds up until the late fall return of buyers and the corresponding increase in the frequency of auctions creates the perceived scarcity in March and April. Surely somebody can check me on that.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Another timing dynamic is consistent with any the first rule of negotiation: The side that can live with the answer being “no” has the upper hand: Buyers in a hurry to secure a painting tend to negotiate less and pay more; and sellers in no hurry to part with a piece tend to be better at resisting low offers.</div>\r\n</li>\r\n<li><div><u>Source.</u> Although the tide is turning, few are the buyers willing to spend $4,000 or more without personally laying eyes on the painting. This has a general effect of chilling overall demand. Exceptions include transactions from trusted sources, such as the auction houses in Vero Beach and elsewhere in Florida, or sellers with whom a track record of quality are established or willingness to accept returns, which is a recommended criterion for purchasing a painting on eBay.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Galleries tend to demand higher prices than private sellers or dealers with costs such as rent, staff, and utilities. It is not uncommon to see a painting purchased at auction for $2,250 offered weeks later at a gallery for $4,750. Dealers operating out of their homes, vehicles, or eBay often provide opportunity to save money, but the risk can be greater than a gallery with a brick-and-mortar presence with greater exposure to reputation damage if a customer isn’t happy. Finally, private sellers represent the best opportunity for the best pricing. It’s almost too rare to mention now but finding a Highwaymen painting at a thrift store or neighborhood garage sale is not entirely out of the question. A significant source of supply comes from family members who find themselves needing to find homes for pieces from a deceased loved one’s collection. These sellers are highly coveted by auction houses, dealers, and direct buyers alike. </div>\r\n</li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Motivation.</u> Investors willingness to pay differs from collectors with even greater variation seen among enthusiasts. Investors are motivated to maximize the return on investment--buy low(er), sell high(er). Investors will be more aware of demand and trends in prices with limits tied to the likelihood of getting the targeted profit margin at resale.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Collectors may be in the market to feed their obsession or complement their existing portfolio with work from a missing artist. 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(346, 1, '2022-07-13 08:00:43', '2022-07-13 08:00:43', '<h1 style=\"color:#cab43c;font-size:2.0rem !important\">A Guide to Acquiring and Treasuring the Art of the Florida Highwaymen</h1>\r\n<div style=\"color:red;margin-bottom:5px;\">This blog has been written and contributed by <strong>Dale A. Brill, Ph.D. (Group founder and administrator of the facebook group:  Florida Highwaymen)</strong>. It is with great appreciation to Dale Brill that we use this work as the inaugural blog in the launch of this website.</div>\r\n<div style=\"color:white;text-align:justify\">\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">With the growth of Florida Highwaymen enthusiasts showing no signs of slowing, a guide to the landscape of the journey seems worthwhile. It is offered with the hope of generating contributions from others with different and deeper insights—even contradiction. This chapter, like the others, is a <i>work-in-progress</i> to be improved by the comments and adaptations driven by changes in the natural evolution of the Florida Highwaymen experience.</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px;\">Consider this just one perspective among many possible takes. Word choice throughout the guide attempts to remind readers of the uniqueness of every Highwaymen painting acquisition. The use of “may,” “tend to,” and “often” signal generalizations not rules. Without exception, every interaction is different. Yours will be, too.</div>\r\n\r\n<h3>“MARKET VALUE AND PRICES”</h3>\r\n\r\n<div><i>Bottom line: A painting is worth what someone is willing to pay for it</i>. That said, the value assigned to a painting is generally based on a calculus of several variables with two factors perhaps the most influential: recent sales prices and expected future demand.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Auction houses represent an easy opportunity to evaluate recent sales prices. Visit an auction house’s website and find their link to “Past Auctions.” From there you can evaluate recent “gavel prices,” which does not include the auctioneer’s premium or taxes. The premium is the auctioneer’s sales commission, ranging from 20% to 28%. Then add 7.5% taxes for state and local taxes (which vary by geography, of course).</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Example: I “won” a Sam Newton painting at auction for $2,400. I ended up paying $3,096. The auctioneer’s 20% premium added $480. Taxes of 7.5% added $216.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>What is the market value? Despite a gavel price (winning bid) of $2,400, the painting is “worth” (to me) $3,096. </div>\r\n\r\n<div>In the example above, my experience and data analysis prior to the auction aligned with the auctioneer’s estimated or projected price which appears on the website. It seemed reasonable to expect the market value of the painting to fall between $2,000 and $4,000. That is a big range against which a painting can fall short or greatly exceed.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Calculations of “market value” can be influenced by several factors:</div>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><div><u>The Artist</u></div>\r\n<ol type=\'A\'>\r\n    <li><div> <i>Demand & Supply.</i> Although there is no certainty about the number of Highwaymen paintings produced (estimates have ranged from 200,000 or more), readers exposed to the economic theory of supply and demand should recognize the impact that perceived scarcity—and other mental gymnastics—can have on prices.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Livingston Roberts passed in 2004. Compared to the few remaining Highwaymen still painting, supply of his work is clearly limited. However, the “living or dead” criterion is but one factor. Another may be the length of time the artist painted, such as Poncho Moran who stopped painting early to follow the allure of being a professional gambler. As a result, the price of his paintings can rival Harold Newton but not from the perspective of artistry.</div></li> \r\n\r\n    <li><div><i>Demonstration of talent.</i> Not every painting reflects the artist’s best effort. The Highwaymen story is multidimensional, including the practical role of making money for the artists. The more they painted, the more they made. Paintings that are viewed as representing the artist’s full capabilities will command higher prices that may have been produced in a hurry to capture the opportunity represented by immediate demand from the tourist traffic during season.</div></li> \r\n\r\n    <li> <div><i>Style.</i> Very similar to “demonstration of talent,” prices for Harold Newton’s paintings reflect, to a great degree, the degree of complexity and mastery demonstrated in his paintings. His work now typically requires investments of $10,000 or more. In contrast, Rodney Demps’ style is just now breaking the $1,000 threshold for exceptional pieces and less than $750 for direct purchases his more traditional work. Demps’ style, which might earn him the moniker “Dali of the Highwaymen,” appears at times crude in contrast to Harold Newton’s realism. Critics may conclude Demps had less talent than Harold Newton while fans may prefer to conclude that he simply saw Florida through a very different lens and it translated accordingly through his paintings. </div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<li><div><u>Scene.</u> Paintings featuring poincianas might be considered the quintessential Highwaymen scene. After several hundred, you start to see the common themes featured across all 26 painters: Rio Mar, River Road, River Inlets, etc. Within a painter’s portfolio, there will be scenes that are featured more than others. For example, Al Black’s work features three birds in flight for the Trinity (although older pieces do not seem bound by this trademark element). Willie Daniels has produced many river/inlet scenes, each with skeletal dock pilings emerging from the shore. Demand for a scene that diverges from those typically associated with an artist often command higher prices. A Willie Daniels piece that features other components, such as a building or person, can be attractive to collectors looking for variation it creates.</div></li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Size.</u> Jumbo or larger pieces (e.g., 24 x 48) command more than smaller pieces (e.g., 16 x 20) generally as the greater space tends to impact the complexity of the work and featured scenes depicted.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>One Florida Highwaymen collector has speculated value (sales price) using a standard calculation based on the surface area of the painting. Example: a 16 x 20 painting by Harold Newton would have a surface area of 320 square inches. At a calculated value per square inch of $17.00, the painting would be worth $5,440. Such an approach as this, of course, would need to reflect trends in sales over time to adjust the “value per square inch” and take into consideration the subjective factors addressed elsewhere in this guide.</div> </li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Medium.</u> The quintessential media associated with Highwaymen paintings are Upson and Masonite board found on construction sites and the local lumber yard. In fact, painting on Upson is considered by expert Kathleen Piowaty Fredrick to be a criterion for inclusion as an Original Highwaymen. Those artists painting in the same style today missed the necessity of Upson and Masonite. Canvas had long been a luxury; as a result, canvas tends to signal the difference between “early” and “later” paintings by the same artist.</div></li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Timing.</u> If buying at auction, note that the prices appear to soften during June – August when the Snowbirds (Northern residents who flock to Florida for the winter) return home. The premise is that the drop in high-tier (read: money) demand softens bidding at auctions; and otherwise puts on hold the buying from local galleries or individuals. My theory suggests that supply then builds up until the late fall return of buyers and the corresponding increase in the frequency of auctions creates the perceived scarcity in March and April. Surely somebody can check me on that.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Another timing dynamic is consistent with any the first rule of negotiation: The side that can live with the answer being “no” has the upper hand: Buyers in a hurry to secure a painting tend to negotiate less and pay more; and sellers in no hurry to part with a piece tend to be better at resisting low offers.</div>\r\n</li>\r\n<li><div><u>Source.</u> Although the tide is turning, few are the buyers willing to spend $4,000 or more without personally laying eyes on the painting. This has a general effect of chilling overall demand. Exceptions include transactions from trusted sources, such as the auction houses in Vero Beach and elsewhere in Florida, or sellers with whom a track record of quality are established or willingness to accept returns, which is a recommended criterion for purchasing a painting on eBay.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Galleries tend to demand higher prices than private sellers or dealers with costs such as rent, staff, and utilities. It is not uncommon to see a painting purchased at auction for $2,250 offered weeks later at a gallery for $4,750. Dealers operating out of their homes, vehicles, or eBay often provide opportunity to save money, but the risk can be greater than a gallery with a brick-and-mortar presence with greater exposure to reputation damage if a customer isn’t happy. Finally, private sellers represent the best opportunity for the best pricing. It’s almost too rare to mention now but finding a Highwaymen painting at a thrift store or neighborhood garage sale is not entirely out of the question. A significant source of supply comes from family members who find themselves needing to find homes for pieces from a deceased loved one’s collection. These sellers are highly coveted by auction houses, dealers, and direct buyers alike. </div>\r\n</li>\r\n\r\n<li><div><u>Motivation.</u> Investors willingness to pay differs from collectors with even greater variation seen among enthusiasts. Investors are motivated to maximize the return on investment--buy low(er), sell high(er). Investors will be more aware of demand and trends in prices with limits tied to the likelihood of getting the targeted profit margin at resale.</div>\r\n\r\n<div>Collectors may be in the market to feed their obsession or complement their existing portfolio with work from a missing artist. A unique scene or prevalence of a coveted technique combined with enough disposable income can blow the expected price range out of the water, especially when two collectors are locked on the same piece.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Enthusiasts tend to buy what they love with an eye on the budget. While a jumbo Harold Newton may be out of reach, a smaller piece by another artist becomes a family treasure and conversation piece for years to come.</div>\r\n</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<div>All things evolve. Fluctuations in the economy and disruption created by technology integration, such as virtual reality and the metaverse, will surely push the artworld across new horizons. 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(350, 1, '2022-07-29 10:01:18', '2022-07-29 10:01:18', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mount Dora Florida Highwaymen Show</h1>\r\n<div style=\"color: white; text-align: justify;\">\r\n<div>The Mount Dora Florida Highwaymen Art Show, Sale &amp; Benefit, presented by Heron Cay Bed &amp; Breakfast Inn and Kelvin Hair, Son of Alfred Hair, is set to take place Saturday, Aug. 13, from 11 am to 5 pm, at the Donnelly Park Pavilion on the corner of 5th and Donnelly Street in Historic Downtown Mount Dora. Two original Florida Highwaymen artists will be attending the art show and sale: Isaac Knight and Roy McLendon. They will return to Mount Dora and sell their artwork during the art show. In addition to original paintings, Florida Highwaymen art prints and commemorative posters will also be available for sale at the art event. Visitors can enjoy the scenic renderings of Florida\'s landscape expressed in the Classic Highwaymen art style.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Heron Cay Bed &amp; Breakfast Inn has presented the Mount Dora Highwaymen Art Show, Sale &amp; Benefit show since 2008, co-sponsored by the Mount Dora Area Chamber of Commerce. Participation at this event is free of charge. For more information, don\'t hesitate to get in touch with Heron Cay Bed &amp; Breakfast at 352-383-4050.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n</div>', 'News', 'Mount Dora Florida Highwaymen Show ', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'news', '', '', '2022-08-03 10:35:53', '2022-08-03 10:35:53', '', 0, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=350', 3, 'post', '', 0);
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(353, 1, '2022-07-13 09:07:31', '2022-07-13 09:07:31', '<h1 style=\"color:#cab43c\">Mount Dora Florida Highwaymen Show </h1>\r\n<div style=\"color:white;text-align:justify\">\r\n<div>The Mount Dora Florida Highwaymen Art Show, Sale & Benefit, presented by Heron Cay Bed & Breakfast Inn and Kelvin Hair, Son of Alfred Hair, is set to take place Saturday, Aug. 13, from 11 am to 5 pm, at the Donnelly Park Pavilion on the corner of 5th and Donnelly Street in Historic Downtown Mount Dora. Two original Florida Highwaymen artists will be attending the art show and sale: Isaac Knight and Roy McLendon. They will return to Mount Dora and sell their artwork during the art show. In addition to original paintings, Florida Highwaymen art prints and commemorative posters will also be available for sale at the art event. Visitors can enjoy the scenic renderings of Florida\'s landscape expressed in the Classic Highwaymen art style.</div> \r\n\r\n<div>Heron Cay Bed & Breakfast Inn has presented the Mount Dora Highwaymen Art Show, Sale & Benefit show since 2008, co-sponsored by the Mount Dora Area Chamber of Commerce. Participation at this event is free of charge. For more information, don\'t hesitate to get in touch with Heron Cay Bed & Breakfast at 352-383-4050.</div>\r\n</div>', 'News', 'Mount Dora Florida Highwaymen Show ', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '350-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-07-13 09:07:31', '2022-07-13 09:07:31', '', 350, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=353', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(404, 1, '2022-07-26 11:16:33', '2022-07-26 11:16:33', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">A Guide to Acquiring and Treasuring the Art of the Florida Highwaymen</h1>\r\n<div style=\"color: red; margin-bottom: 5px;\">This blog has been written and contributed by <strong>Dale A. Brill, Ph.D. (Group founder and administrator of the facebook group: Florida Highwaymen)</strong>. It is with great appreciation to Dale Brill that we use this work as the inaugural blog in the launch of this website.</div>\r\n<div style=\"color: white; text-align: justify;\">\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">With the growth of Florida Highwaymen enthusiasts showing no signs of slowing, a guide to the landscape of the journey seems worthwhile. It is offered with the hope of generating contributions from others with different and deeper insights—even contradiction. This chapter, like the others, is a <i>work-in-progress</i> to be improved by the comments and adaptations driven by changes in the natural evolution of the Florida Highwaymen experience.</div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Consider this just one perspective among many possible takes. Word choice throughout the guide attempts to remind readers of the uniqueness of every Highwaymen painting acquisition. The use of “may,” “tend to,” and “often” signal generalizations not rules. Without exception, every interaction is different. Yours will be, too.</div>\r\n<h3>“MARKET VALUE AND PRICES”</h3>\r\n<div><i>Bottom line: A painting is worth what someone is willing to pay for it</i>. That said, the value assigned to a painting is generally based on a calculus of several variables with two factors perhaps the most influential: recent sales prices and expected future demand.</div>\r\n<div>Auction houses represent an easy opportunity to evaluate recent sales prices. Visit an auction house’s website and find their link to “Past Auctions.” From there you can evaluate recent “gavel prices,” which does not include the auctioneer’s premium or taxes. The premium is the auctioneer’s sales commission, ranging from 20% to 28%. Then add 7.5% taxes for state and local taxes (which vary by geography, of course).</div>\r\n<div>Example: I “won” a Sam Newton painting at auction for $2,400. I ended up paying $3,096. The auctioneer’s 20% premium added $480. Taxes of 7.5% added $216.</div>\r\n<div>What is the market value? Despite a gavel price (winning bid) of $2,400, the painting is “worth” (to me) $3,096.</div>\r\n<div>In the example above, my experience and data analysis prior to the auction aligned with the auctioneer’s estimated or projected price which appears on the website. It seemed reasonable to expect the market value of the painting to fall between $2,000 and $4,000. That is a big range against which a painting can fall short or greatly exceed.</div>\r\n<div>Calculations of “market value” can be influenced by several factors:</div>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>The Artist</u></div>\r\n<ol type=\"A\">\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Demand &amp; Supply.</i> Although there is no certainty about the number of Highwaymen paintings produced (estimates have ranged from 200,000 or more), readers exposed to the economic theory of supply and demand should recognize the impact that perceived scarcity—and other mental gymnastics—can have on prices.</div>\r\n<div>Livingston Roberts passed in 2004. Compared to the few remaining Highwaymen still painting, supply of his work is clearly limited. However, the “living or dead” criterion is but one factor. Another may be the length of time the artist painted, such as Poncho Moran who stopped painting early to follow the allure of being a professional gambler. As a result, the price of his paintings can rival Harold Newton but not from the perspective of artistry.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Demonstration of talent.</i> Not every painting reflects the artist’s best effort. The Highwaymen story is multidimensional, including the practical role of making money for the artists. The more they painted, the more they made. Paintings that are viewed as representing the artist’s full capabilities will command higher prices that may have been produced in a hurry to capture the opportunity represented by immediate demand from the tourist traffic during season.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Style.</i> Very similar to “demonstration of talent,” prices for Harold Newton’s paintings reflect, to a great degree, the degree of complexity and mastery demonstrated in his paintings. His work now typically requires investments of $10,000 or more. In contrast, Rodney Demps’ style is just now breaking the $1,000 threshold for exceptional pieces and less than $750 for direct purchases his more traditional work. Demps’ style, which might earn him the moniker “Dali of the Highwaymen,” appears at times crude in contrast to Harold Newton’s realism. Critics may conclude Demps had less talent than Harold Newton while fans may prefer to conclude that he simply saw Florida through a very different lens and it translated accordingly through his paintings.</div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Scene.</u> Paintings featuring poincianas might be considered the quintessential Highwaymen scene. After several hundred, you start to see the common themes featured across all 26 painters: Rio Mar, River Road, River Inlets, etc. Within a painter’s portfolio, there will be scenes that are featured more than others. For example, Al Black’s work features three birds in flight for the Trinity (although older pieces do not seem bound by this trademark element). Willie Daniels has produced many river/inlet scenes, each with skeletal dock pilings emerging from the shore. Demand for a scene that diverges from those typically associated with an artist often command higher prices. A Willie Daniels piece that features other components, such as a building or person, can be attractive to collectors looking for variation it creates.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Size.</u> Jumbo or larger pieces (e.g., 24 x 48) command more than smaller pieces (e.g., 16 x 20) generally as the greater space tends to impact the complexity of the work and featured scenes depicted.</div>\r\n<div>One Florida Highwaymen collector has speculated value (sales price) using a standard calculation based on the surface area of the painting. Example: a 16 x 20 painting by Harold Newton would have a surface area of 320 square inches. At a calculated value per square inch of $17.00, the painting would be worth $5,440. Such an approach as this, of course, would need to reflect trends in sales over time to adjust the “value per square inch” and take into consideration the subjective factors addressed elsewhere in this guide.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Medium.</u> The quintessential media associated with Highwaymen paintings are Upson and Masonite board found on construction sites and the local lumber yard. In fact, painting on Upson is considered by expert Kathleen Piowaty Fredrick to be a criterion for inclusion as an Original Highwaymen. Those artists painting in the same style today missed the necessity of Upson and Masonite. Canvas had long been a luxury; as a result, canvas tends to signal the difference between “early” and “later” paintings by the same artist.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Timing.</u> If buying at auction, note that the prices appear to soften during June – August when the Snowbirds (Northern residents who flock to Florida for the winter) return home. The premise is that the drop in high-tier (read: money) demand softens bidding at auctions; and otherwise puts on hold the buying from local galleries or individuals. My theory suggests that supply then builds up until the late fall return of buyers and the corresponding increase in the frequency of auctions creates the perceived scarcity in March and April. Surely somebody can check me on that.</div>\r\n<div>Another timing dynamic is consistent with any the first rule of negotiation: The side that can live with the answer being “no” has the upper hand: Buyers in a hurry to secure a painting tend to negotiate less and pay more; and sellers in no hurry to part with a piece tend to be better at resisting low offers.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Source.</u> Although the tide is turning, few are the buyers willing to spend $4,000 or more without personally laying eyes on the painting. This has a general effect of chilling overall demand. Exceptions include transactions from trusted sources, such as the auction houses in Vero Beach and elsewhere in Florida, or sellers with whom a track record of quality are established or willingness to accept returns, which is a recommended criterion for purchasing a painting on eBay.</div>\r\n<div>Galleries tend to demand higher prices than private sellers or dealers with costs such as rent, staff, and utilities. It is not uncommon to see a painting purchased at auction for $2,250 offered weeks later at a gallery for $4,750. Dealers operating out of their homes, vehicles, or eBay often provide opportunity to save money, but the risk can be greater than a gallery with a brick-and-mortar presence with greater exposure to reputation damage if a customer isn’t happy. Finally, private sellers represent the best opportunity for the best pricing. 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This chapter, like the others, is a <i>work-in-progress</i> to be improved by the comments and adaptations driven by changes in the natural evolution of the Florida Highwaymen experience.</div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Consider this just one perspective among many possible takes. Word choice throughout the guide attempts to remind readers of the uniqueness of every Highwaymen painting acquisition. The use of “may,” “tend to,” and “often” signal generalizations not rules. Without exception, every interaction is different. Yours will be, too.</div>\r\n<h3>“MARKET VALUE AND PRICES”</h3>\r\n<div><i>Bottom line: A painting is worth what someone is willing to pay for it</i>. That said, the value assigned to a painting is generally based on a calculus of several variables with two factors perhaps the most influential: recent sales prices and expected future demand.</div>\r\n<div>Auction houses represent an easy opportunity to evaluate recent sales prices. Visit an auction house’s website and find their link to “Past Auctions.” From there you can evaluate recent “gavel prices,” which does not include the auctioneer’s premium or taxes. The premium is the auctioneer’s sales commission, ranging from 20% to 28%. Then add 7.5% taxes for state and local taxes (which vary by geography, of course).</div>\r\n<div>Example: I “won” a Sam Newton painting at auction for $2,400. I ended up paying $3,096. The auctioneer’s 20% premium added $480. Taxes of 7.5% added $216.</div>\r\n<div>What is the market value? Despite a gavel price (winning bid) of $2,400, the painting is “worth” (to me) $3,096.</div>\r\n<div>In the example above, my experience and data analysis prior to the auction aligned with the auctioneer’s estimated or projected price which appears on the website. It seemed reasonable to expect the market value of the painting to fall between $2,000 and $4,000. 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As a result, the price of his paintings can rival Harold Newton but not from the perspective of artistry.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Demonstration of talent.</i> Not every painting reflects the artist’s best effort. The Highwaymen story is multidimensional, including the practical role of making money for the artists. The more they painted, the more they made. Paintings that are viewed as representing the artist’s full capabilities will command higher prices that may have been produced in a hurry to capture the opportunity represented by immediate demand from the tourist traffic during season.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Style.</i> Very similar to “demonstration of talent,” prices for Harold Newton’s paintings reflect, to a great degree, the degree of complexity and mastery demonstrated in his paintings. His work now typically requires investments of $10,000 or more. In contrast, Rodney Demps’ style is just now breaking the $1,000 threshold for exceptional pieces and less than $750 for direct purchases his more traditional work. Demps’ style, which might earn him the moniker “Dali of the Highwaymen,” appears at times crude in contrast to Harold Newton’s realism. Critics may conclude Demps had less talent than Harold Newton while fans may prefer to conclude that he simply saw Florida through a very different lens and it translated accordingly through his paintings.</div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Scene.</u> Paintings featuring poincianas might be considered the quintessential Highwaymen scene. After several hundred, you start to see the common themes featured across all 26 painters: Rio Mar, River Road, River Inlets, etc. Within a painter’s portfolio, there will be scenes that are featured more than others. For example, Al Black’s work features three birds in flight for the Trinity (although older pieces do not seem bound by this trademark element). Willie Daniels has produced many river/inlet scenes, each with skeletal dock pilings emerging from the shore. Demand for a scene that diverges from those typically associated with an artist often command higher prices. A Willie Daniels piece that features other components, such as a building or person, can be attractive to collectors looking for variation it creates.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Size.</u> Jumbo or larger pieces (e.g., 24 x 48) command more than smaller pieces (e.g., 16 x 20) generally as the greater space tends to impact the complexity of the work and featured scenes depicted.</div>\r\n<div>One Florida Highwaymen collector has speculated value (sales price) using a standard calculation based on the surface area of the painting. Example: a 16 x 20 painting by Harold Newton would have a surface area of 320 square inches. 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This chapter, like the others, is a <i>work-in-progress</i> to be improved by the comments and adaptations driven by changes in the natural evolution of the Florida Highwaymen experience.</div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Consider this just one perspective among many possible takes. Word choice throughout the guide attempts to remind readers of the uniqueness of every Highwaymen painting acquisition. The use of “may,” “tend to,” and “often” signal generalizations not rules. Without exception, every interaction is different. Yours will be, too.</div>\r\n<h3>“MARKET VALUE AND PRICES”</h3>\r\n<div><i>Bottom line: A painting is worth what someone is willing to pay for it</i>. That said, the value assigned to a painting is generally based on a calculus of several variables with two factors perhaps the most influential: recent sales prices and expected future demand.</div>\r\n<div>Auction houses represent an easy opportunity to evaluate recent sales prices. Visit an auction house’s website and find their link to “Past Auctions.” From there you can evaluate recent “gavel prices,” which does not include the auctioneer’s premium or taxes. The premium is the auctioneer’s sales commission, ranging from 20% to 28%. Then add 7.5% taxes for state and local taxes (which vary by geography, of course).</div>\r\n<div>Example: I “won” a Sam Newton painting at auction for $2,400. I ended up paying $3,096. The auctioneer’s 20% premium added $480. Taxes of 7.5% added $216.</div>\r\n<div>What is the market value? Despite a gavel price (winning bid) of $2,400, the painting is “worth” (to me) $3,096.</div>\r\n<div>In the example above, my experience and data analysis prior to the auction aligned with the auctioneer’s estimated or projected price which appears on the website. It seemed reasonable to expect the market value of the painting to fall between $2,000 and $4,000. That is a big range against which a painting can fall short or greatly exceed.</div>\r\n<div>Calculations of “market value” can be influenced by several factors:</div>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>The Artist</u></div>\r\n<ol type=\"A\">\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Demand &amp; Supply.</i> Although there is no certainty about the number of Highwaymen paintings produced (estimates have ranged from 200,000 or more), readers exposed to the economic theory of supply and demand should recognize the impact that perceived scarcity—and other mental gymnastics—can have on prices.</div>\r\n<div>Livingston Roberts passed in 2004. Compared to the few remaining Highwaymen still painting, supply of his work is clearly limited. However, the “living or dead” criterion is but one factor. Another may be the length of time the artist painted, such as Poncho Moran who stopped painting early to follow the allure of being a professional gambler. As a result, the price of his paintings can rival Harold Newton but not from the perspective of artistry.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Demonstration of talent.</i> Not every painting reflects the artist’s best effort. The Highwaymen story is multidimensional, including the practical role of making money for the artists. The more they painted, the more they made. Paintings that are viewed as representing the artist’s full capabilities will command higher prices that may have been produced in a hurry to capture the opportunity represented by immediate demand from the tourist traffic during season.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Style.</i> Very similar to “demonstration of talent,” prices for Harold Newton’s paintings reflect, to a great degree, the degree of complexity and mastery demonstrated in his paintings. His work now typically requires investments of $10,000 or more. In contrast, Rodney Demps’ style is just now breaking the $1,000 threshold for exceptional pieces and less than $750 for direct purchases his more traditional work. Demps’ style, which might earn him the moniker “Dali of the Highwaymen,” appears at times crude in contrast to Harold Newton’s realism. Critics may conclude Demps had less talent than Harold Newton while fans may prefer to conclude that he simply saw Florida through a very different lens and it translated accordingly through his paintings.</div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Scene.</u> Paintings featuring poincianas might be considered the quintessential Highwaymen scene. After several hundred, you start to see the common themes featured across all 26 painters: Rio Mar, River Road, River Inlets, etc. Within a painter’s portfolio, there will be scenes that are featured more than others. For example, Al Black’s work features three birds in flight for the Trinity (although older pieces do not seem bound by this trademark element). Willie Daniels has produced many river/inlet scenes, each with skeletal dock pilings emerging from the shore. Demand for a scene that diverges from those typically associated with an artist often command higher prices. A Willie Daniels piece that features other components, such as a building or person, can be attractive to collectors looking for variation it creates.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Size.</u> Jumbo or larger pieces (e.g., 24 x 48) command more than smaller pieces (e.g., 16 x 20) generally as the greater space tends to impact the complexity of the work and featured scenes depicted.</div>\r\n<div>One Florida Highwaymen collector has speculated value (sales price) using a standard calculation based on the surface area of the painting. Example: a 16 x 20 painting by Harold Newton would have a surface area of 320 square inches. At a calculated value per square inch of $17.00, the painting would be worth $5,440. Such an approach as this, of course, would need to reflect trends in sales over time to adjust the “value per square inch” and take into consideration the subjective factors addressed elsewhere in this guide.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Medium.</u> The quintessential media associated with Highwaymen paintings are Upson and Masonite board found on construction sites and the local lumber yard. In fact, painting on Upson is considered by expert Kathleen Piowaty Fredrick to be a criterion for inclusion as an Original Highwaymen. Those artists painting in the same style today missed the necessity of Upson and Masonite. Canvas had long been a luxury; as a result, canvas tends to signal the difference between “early” and “later” paintings by the same artist.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Timing.</u> If buying at auction, note that the prices appear to soften during June – August when the Snowbirds (Northern residents who flock to Florida for the winter) return home. The premise is that the drop in high-tier (read: money) demand softens bidding at auctions; and otherwise puts on hold the buying from local galleries or individuals. My theory suggests that supply then builds up until the late fall return of buyers and the corresponding increase in the frequency of auctions creates the perceived scarcity in March and April. Surely somebody can check me on that.</div>\r\n<div>Another timing dynamic is consistent with any the first rule of negotiation: The side that can live with the answer being “no” has the upper hand: Buyers in a hurry to secure a painting tend to negotiate less and pay more; and sellers in no hurry to part with a piece tend to be better at resisting low offers.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Source.</u> Although the tide is turning, few are the buyers willing to spend $4,000 or more without personally laying eyes on the painting. This has a general effect of chilling overall demand. Exceptions include transactions from trusted sources, such as the auction houses in Vero Beach and elsewhere in Florida, or sellers with whom a track record of quality are established or willingness to accept returns, which is a recommended criterion for purchasing a painting on eBay.</div>\r\n<div>Galleries tend to demand higher prices than private sellers or dealers with costs such as rent, staff, and utilities. It is not uncommon to see a painting purchased at auction for $2,250 offered weeks later at a gallery for $4,750. Dealers operating out of their homes, vehicles, or eBay often provide opportunity to save money, but the risk can be greater than a gallery with a brick-and-mortar presence with greater exposure to reputation damage if a customer isn’t happy. Finally, private sellers represent the best opportunity for the best pricing. It’s almost too rare to mention now but finding a Highwaymen painting at a thrift store or neighborhood garage sale is not entirely out of the question. A significant source of supply comes from family members who find themselves needing to find homes for pieces from a deceased loved one’s collection. These sellers are highly coveted by auction houses, dealers, and direct buyers alike.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Motivation.</u> Investors willingness to pay differs from collectors with even greater variation seen among enthusiasts. Investors are motivated to maximize the return on investment--buy low(er), sell high(er). Investors will be more aware of demand and trends in prices with limits tied to the likelihood of getting the targeted profit margin at resale.</div>\r\n<div>Collectors may be in the market to feed their obsession or complement their existing portfolio with work from a missing artist. A unique scene or prevalence of a coveted technique combined with enough disposable income can blow the expected price range out of the water, especially when two collectors are locked on the same piece.</div>\r\n<div>Enthusiasts tend to buy what they love with an eye on the budget. While a jumbo Harold Newton may be out of reach, a smaller piece by another artist becomes a family treasure and conversation piece for years to come.</div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<div>All things evolve. Fluctuations in the economy and disruption created by technology integration, such as virtual reality and the metaverse, will surely push the artworld across new horizons. 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(445, 1, '2022-08-03 10:35:53', '2022-08-03 10:35:53', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mount Dora Florida Highwaymen Show</h1>\r\n<div style=\"color: white; text-align: justify;\">\r\n<div>The Mount Dora Florida Highwaymen Art Show, Sale &amp; Benefit, presented by Heron Cay Bed &amp; Breakfast Inn and Kelvin Hair, Son of Alfred Hair, is set to take place Saturday, Aug. 13, from 11 am to 5 pm, at the Donnelly Park Pavilion on the corner of 5th and Donnelly Street in Historic Downtown Mount Dora. Two original Florida Highwaymen artists will be attending the art show and sale: Isaac Knight and Roy McLendon. They will return to Mount Dora and sell their artwork during the art show. In addition to original paintings, Florida Highwaymen art prints and commemorative posters will also be available for sale at the art event. Visitors can enjoy the scenic renderings of Florida\'s landscape expressed in the Classic Highwaymen art style.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Heron Cay Bed &amp; Breakfast Inn has presented the Mount Dora Highwaymen Art Show, Sale &amp; Benefit show since 2008, co-sponsored by the Mount Dora Area Chamber of Commerce. Participation at this event is free of charge. For more information, don\'t hesitate to get in touch with Heron Cay Bed &amp; Breakfast at 352-383-4050.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n</div>', 'News', 'Mount Dora Florida Highwaymen Show ', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '350-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-08-03 10:35:53', '2022-08-03 10:35:53', '', 350, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=445', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(446, 1, '2022-08-03 10:36:06', '2022-08-03 10:36:06', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Highwaymen Museum To Get A Permanent Home</h1>\r\n<div style=\"color: white; text-align: justify;\">\r\n<div>The Fort Pierce Redevelopment Agency (FPRA) plans to permanently install the future Highwaymen artist museum in the city-owned Jackie L. Caynon Sr. Building.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Last year, the FPRA approved renting the facility at 1234 Avenue D to the Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, Inc., a non-profit organization run by Doretha Hair-Truesdell, the wife of the Alfred Hair. Audria Moore-Wells, Special Project Coordinator at the FPRA, explained that the FPRA could only sign a one-year agreement with the Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen organization at that time due to City of Fort Pierce ordinances. Instead, FPRA needs to issue a request for proposals on the building and try to extend the contract with the Highwaymen organization for more than a year because FPRA truly wants to give the Highwaymen a home to operate the organization and the museum. Additionally, Ms. Moore-Wells introduces the timeline for the bidding process. The first publication of the request for proposals was on June 21st, followed by two advertising dates, June 21st and June 26th. Then, FPRA will evaluate the proposals in August and present the recommendations to the board in September.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>However, Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen also faces some challenges. First, it sells driving license plates to help maintain the future museum’s operations. However, its sales haven’t reached 200 yet. Moreover, Florida policy regulates the state to manufacture custom license plates only after 3,000 of them have been pre-sold, so the museum has a long way to go before production. To help this non-profit organization, FPRA advertises in the Florida City &amp; County Management Association and on its website, plans to make promotions during celebrations on Juneteenth, and reaches out to a pop-up art gallery. Second, other organizations may apply for this city-owned structure, which means the Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen will have to compete with others. However, luckily, it meets the requirements of the application. More specifically, the projected timetable for the bidding process does not conflict with the organization’s lease agreement, which was approved nearly 10 months ago, confirmed by City Attorney Tanya Earley. The Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, Inc., has already submitted its plans to the State of Florida for remodeling its current rented facility.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Ms. Moore-Wells said that the FPRA received the contract from the state. It will issue an RFP for the project once it has had a chance to review the agreement.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div>Anyone interested in Highwaymen art and who wants a customized Highwaymen license plate can visit TCSLC.com. If the sale fails to reach the minimum production number, the money will be refunded to those who purchased the license plates.</div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n</div>', 'News', 'Highwaymen Museum To Get A Permanent Home ', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-08-03 10:36:06', '2022-08-03 10:36:06', '', 354, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=446', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(449, 1, '2022-08-04 12:11:40', '2022-08-04 12:11:40', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical\r\n\r\nscenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3); another painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4). In these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. Although he never taught any students, and none of his family members are painters, his art style is unique and always impresses viewers.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div>References:“Fine Art &amp; Antiques Auction .” Absolute Auctions &amp; Realty, https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#.\r\n\r\n“The Original Florida Highwaymen Artist Bios.” Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/.\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps .” Florida Highwaymen Paintings, 4 Feb. 2022, https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/.\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps 1953-2020 Florida Highwaymen Painting.” LiveAuctioneers, https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting. .\r\n\r\n“Rodney Dyanza Demps\'s Obituary.” Obituary in Fort Pierce at Stone Bros. Funeral Home and Chapel | FL, https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/stone-bros-funeral-home-and-chapel/rodney-dyanza-demps-obituary.\r\n\r\nWeber, Jasmine. “Florida\'s Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters.” Hyperallergic, 10 Aug. 2021, https://hyperallergic.com/669196/florida-kaleidoscopic-skies-windblown-palms-immortalized-by-highwaymen-a-cohort-of-black-painters/\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Archive Blog', 'Archive Placeholder for Future Use.', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '196-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-08-04 12:11:40', '2022-08-04 12:11:40', '', 196, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=449', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(450, 1, '2022-08-04 12:13:35', '2022-08-04 12:13:35', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical\r\n\r\nscenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3); another painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4). In these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. Although he never taught any students, and none of his family members are painters, his art style is unique and always impresses viewers.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\n\r\n“Fine Art &amp; Antiques Auction .” Absolute Auctions &amp; Realty, <a href=\"https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#\">https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#.</a>\r\n\r\n“The Original Florida Highwaymen Artist Bios.” Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/.\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps .” Florida Highwaymen Paintings, 4 Feb. 2022, https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/.\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps 1953-2020 Florida Highwaymen Painting.” LiveAuctioneers, https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting. .\r\n\r\n“Rodney Dyanza Demps\'s Obituary.” Obituary in Fort Pierce at Stone Bros. 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(451, 1, '2022-08-04 12:17:00', '2022-08-04 12:17:00', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical\r\n\r\nscenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3); another painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4). In these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. Although he never taught any students, and none of his family members are painters, his art style is unique and always impresses viewers.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\n\r\n“Fine Art &amp; Antiques Auction .” Absolute Auctions &amp; Realty, <a href=\"https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#.</a>\r\n\r\n“The Original Florida Highwaymen Artist Bios.” Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, <a href=\"https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps .” Florida Highwaymen Paintings, 4 Feb. 2022, <a href=\"https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps 1953-2020 Florida Highwaymen Painting.” LiveAuctioneers, <a href=\"https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Dyanza Demps\'s Obituary.” Obituary in Fort Pierce at Stone Bros. 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(454, 1, '2022-08-05 05:07:03', '2022-08-05 05:07:03', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical\r\n\r\nscenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3); another painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4). In these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. Although he never taught any students, and none of his family members are painters, his art style is unique and always impresses viewers.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\n\r\n“Fine Art &amp; Antiques Auction .” Absolute Auctions &amp; Realty, <a href=\"https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#.</a>\r\n\r\n“The Original Florida Highwaymen Artist Bios.” Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, <a href=\"https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps .” Florida Highwaymen Paintings, 4 Feb. 2022, <a href=\"https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps 1953-2020 Florida Highwaymen Painting.” LiveAuctioneers, <a href=\"https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Dyanza Demps\'s Obituary.” Obituary in Fort Pierce at Stone Bros. 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(455, 1, '2022-08-05 05:18:29', '2022-08-05 05:18:29', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical\r\n\r\nscenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3); another painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4). In these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. Although he never taught any students, and none of his family members are painters, his art style is unique and always impresses viewers.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\n\r\n“Fine Art &amp; Antiques Auction .” Absolute Auctions &amp; Realty, <a href=\"https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#.</a>\r\n\r\n“The Original Florida Highwaymen Artist Bios.” Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, <a href=\"https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps .” Florida Highwaymen Paintings, 4 Feb. 2022, <a href=\"https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps 1953-2020 Florida Highwaymen Painting.” LiveAuctioneers, <a href=\"https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Dyanza Demps\'s Obituary.” Obituary in Fort Pierce at Stone Bros. 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(465, 1, '2022-08-08 10:24:45', '2022-08-08 10:24:45', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical scenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-459 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.1 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-460 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.2 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3);\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-461 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.3</span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"> Washer Woman loading car with laundry</span></span></p>\r\nanother painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4).\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-462 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-4-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.4 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Several people spend time outside of a boarding house</span></span></p>\r\nIn these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-463 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-5-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig. 5 Ocean Sunset</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-464 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-6-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.6 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Eddie\'s Place</span></span></p>\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. Although he never taught any students, and none of his family members are painters, his art style is unique and always impresses viewers.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\n\r\n“Fine Art &amp; Antiques Auction .” Absolute Auctions &amp; Realty, <a href=\"https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#.</a>\r\n\r\n“The Original Florida Highwaymen Artist Bios.” Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, <a href=\"https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps .” Florida Highwaymen Paintings, 4 Feb. 2022, <a href=\"https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps 1953-2020 Florida Highwaymen Painting.” LiveAuctioneers, <a href=\"https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Dyanza Demps\'s Obituary.” Obituary in Fort Pierce at Stone Bros. Funeral Home and Chapel | FL, <a href=\"https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/stone-bros-funeral-home-and-chapel/rodney-dyanza-demps-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/stone-bros-funeral-home-and-chapel/rodney-dyanza-demps-obituary.</a>\r\n\r\nWeber, Jasmine. “Florida\'s Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters.” Hyperallergic, 10 Aug. 2021, <a href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/669196/florida-kaleidoscopic-skies-windblown-palms-immortalized-by-highwaymen-a-cohort-of-black-painters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://hyperallergic.com/669196/florida-kaleidoscopic-skies-windblown-palms-immortalized-by-highwaymen-a-cohort-of-black-painters/</a>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Archive Blog', 'Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '196-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-08-08 10:24:45', '2022-08-08 10:24:45', '', 196, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=465', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(466, 1, '2022-08-08 10:26:12', '2022-08-08 10:26:12', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical scenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-459 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.1 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-460 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.2 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\n\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3);\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-461 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.3</span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"> Washer Woman loading car with laundry</span></span></p>\r\n\r\nanother painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4).\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-462 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-4-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.4 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Several people spend time outside of a boarding house</span></span></p>\r\n\r\nIn these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-463 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-5-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig. 5 Ocean Sunset</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-464 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-6-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.6 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Eddie\'s Place</span></span></p>\r\n\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. Although he never taught any students, and none of his family members are painters, his art style is unique and always impresses viewers.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\n\r\n“Fine Art &amp; Antiques Auction .” Absolute Auctions &amp; Realty, <a href=\"https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#.</a>\r\n\r\n“The Original Florida Highwaymen Artist Bios.” Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, <a href=\"https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps .” Florida Highwaymen Paintings, 4 Feb. 2022, <a href=\"https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps 1953-2020 Florida Highwaymen Painting.” LiveAuctioneers, <a href=\"https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Dyanza Demps\'s Obituary.” Obituary in Fort Pierce at Stone Bros. Funeral Home and Chapel | FL, <a href=\"https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/stone-bros-funeral-home-and-chapel/rodney-dyanza-demps-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/stone-bros-funeral-home-and-chapel/rodney-dyanza-demps-obituary.</a>\r\n\r\nWeber, Jasmine. “Florida\'s Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters.” Hyperallergic, 10 Aug. 2021, <a href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/669196/florida-kaleidoscopic-skies-windblown-palms-immortalized-by-highwaymen-a-cohort-of-black-painters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://hyperallergic.com/669196/florida-kaleidoscopic-skies-windblown-palms-immortalized-by-highwaymen-a-cohort-of-black-painters/</a>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Archive Blog', 'Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '196-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-08-08 10:26:12', '2022-08-08 10:26:12', '', 196, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=466', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(467, 1, '2022-08-08 10:27:47', '2022-08-08 10:27:47', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical scenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-459 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.1 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-460 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.2 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3);\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-461 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.3</span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"> Washer Woman loading car with laundry</span></span></p>\r\nanother painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4).\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-462 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-4-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.4 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Several people spend time outside of a boarding house</span></span></p>\r\nIn these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-463 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-5-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig. 5 Ocean Sunset</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-464 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-6-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.6 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Eddie\'s Place</span></span></p>\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. 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(471, 1, '2022-08-09 11:34:20', '2022-08-09 11:34:20', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical scenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-459 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.1 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-460 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.2 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3);\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-461 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.3</span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"> Washer Woman loading car with laundry</span></span></p>\r\nanother painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4).\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-462 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-4-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.4 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Several people spend time outside of a boarding house</span></span></p>\r\nIn these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-463 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-5-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig. 5 Ocean Sunset</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-470 size-medium\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-6-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.6 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Eddie\'s Place</span></span></p>\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. 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(479, 1, '2022-08-23 08:48:46', '2022-08-23 08:48:46', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical scenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-459 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/fig-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.1 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-460 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.2 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3);\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-461 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.3</span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"> Washer Woman loading car with laundry</span></span></p>\r\nanother painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4).\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-462 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-4-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.4 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Several people spend time outside of a boarding house</span></span></p>\r\nIn these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-463 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-5-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig. 5 Ocean Sunset</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-470 size-medium\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-6-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.6 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Eddie\'s Place</span></span></p>\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. Although he never taught any students, and none of his family members are painters, his art style is unique and always impresses viewers.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\n\r\n“Fine Art &amp; Antiques Auction .” Absolute Auctions &amp; Realty, <a href=\"https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#.</a>\r\n\r\n“The Original Florida Highwaymen Artist Bios.” Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, <a href=\"https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps .” Florida Highwaymen Paintings, 4 Feb. 2022, <a href=\"https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps 1953-2020 Florida Highwaymen Painting.” LiveAuctioneers, <a href=\"https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Dyanza Demps\'s Obituary.” Obituary in Fort Pierce at Stone Bros. Funeral Home and Chapel | FL, <a href=\"https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/stone-bros-funeral-home-and-chapel/rodney-dyanza-demps-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/stone-bros-funeral-home-and-chapel/rodney-dyanza-demps-obituary.</a>\r\n\r\nWeber, Jasmine. “Florida\'s Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters.” Hyperallergic, 10 Aug. 2021, <a href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/669196/florida-kaleidoscopic-skies-windblown-palms-immortalized-by-highwaymen-a-cohort-of-black-painters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://hyperallergic.com/669196/florida-kaleidoscopic-skies-windblown-palms-immortalized-by-highwaymen-a-cohort-of-black-painters/</a>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Archive Blog', 'Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '196-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-08-23 08:48:46', '2022-08-23 08:48:46', '', 196, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=479', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(481, 1, '2022-08-23 09:02:27', '2022-08-23 09:02:27', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c; font-size: 2.0rem !important;\">Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist</h1>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">\r\n\r\nRodney Demps remains one of the more interesting members of the Highwaymen Artists group. While not as “painterly” in a traditional style, as most others in the group, his work captured a unique style, which makes his paintings easily recognizable. His work ranges from “rough” and often undeveloped looking, to paintings that are beautifully sublime. At the same time, his work remains among the lowest priced artwork among all Highwaymen artists. The Highwaymen Collector pricing data shows that all paintings still have an average price of less than $1,000. The most beautiful examples of his work still barely reach $2,000. A quality paining by Demps is likely to outperform the other Highwaymen in terms of value growth.\r\n\r\nBorn in 1953 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Demps attended a public school in St. Lucie County, where he simulated his interest in painting in the fifth grade. Then, he attended Lincoln Park Academy. He was encouraged by his eighth-grade art teacher, Mrs. Zenobia Jefferson, who brought Rodney to meet A.E. Backus, and Rodney became Backus’s art mentee. Later, through Backus, Rodney connected with Alfred Hair, the co-founder of the Florida Highwaymen. Hair initially taught Demps to build frames from crown moldings, and eventually Demps assisted Hair with his own paintings – typically sketching out the skies in Hair’s work.\r\n\r\nDemps eventually transferred to and later graduated from the Fort Pierce Central High School and then attended Florida A&amp;M University where he received a Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Fitness. After graduation, he entered the United States Marine Corps for two years and got his master’s degree in health education from FAMU. In 2004, he joined the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. He died on June 17, 2020.\r\n\r\nDemps was always a bit different than the other Highwaymen. Unlike the others, he never sold his paintings on the road. Instead, he sold them at home. However, he is associated with the Florida Highwaymen due to his interaction with Bean Backus and Alfred Hair. He learned oil painting techniques from Bean Backus and how to build painting frames and landscapes from Alfred Hair. His artwork is unlike other Highwaymen artists. He is known as the Surrealist in the group.\r\n\r\nHair influenced his early-stage paintings, but he combined his painterly approach to color, light, and movement. His later-stage artworks include murals, collages, and multi-media representations of aspects of his daily life, from the football field to his grandmother’s grocery store.\r\n\r\nHis many landscape paintings, typically combines landscape with surrealism, an artistic movement that allows artists to express the unconscious mind and illogical scenes. For example, in Rainbow Sky (Fig.1), Rodney depicts an oceanside sky and wavy sea with bold and complementary colors of citrus orange blended with robin’s egg blue, buttercup yellow, and lilac. This is not a typical Highwaymen look !\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-459 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/fig-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.1 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn the foreground, the palm trees are also surrealistic as painted with brushy dollops and cross-hatched by a palette knife. Although the colors and scenes in his painting aren’t realistic, both allow viewers to reflect on nature and make the scene unforgettable. Demps’ work also provide a metaphor for Florida’s summer sunset. In another painting, Demps portrays an abstract Florida wetlands landscape (Fig.2) with the birds flying in a dramatic sky of orange, yellow, blue, and green colors with curving palm trees beneath the sky. The scene is implying the ocean breeze is blowing the palm with great force. This scene lets viewers imagine that the rainy storm ends with palm trees and floras in front of the crashing sea waves.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-460 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/fig-2-300x200-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.2 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Rainbow Sky</span></span></p>\r\nUnlike other artists who only depict landscapes or include minimal human involvement in the landscape formation in their painting, Rodney Demps shows local residents at work, or only objects in the picture. A popular Demps subject portrays a Washer Woman loading a car with laundry (Fig.3);\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-461 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.3</span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"> Washer Woman loading car with laundry</span></span></p>\r\nanother painting shows several people spending time outside of a boarding house (Fig.4).\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-462 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-4-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.4 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Several people spend time outside of a boarding house</span></span></p>\r\nIn these paintings, architecture is presented in an abstract way that structures are stretched or bent, and windows are stacked like squares. People’s faces are never directly depicted. However, these people are moving, and have action, making them become “real” people. These paintings present a dreamlike quality of abstract architecture and ghostly figures as surrealists typically do.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-463 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-5-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig. 5 Ocean Sunset</span></span></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n(Figure 5) Ocean Sunset captures the best of the Demps style. A vibrant ocean with a rich yellow sunset reflection – but no sun itself represented in the painting. The foreground is dark, as it is not captured in the sunset light. The contrast heightens the drama in the painting.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-470 size-medium\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fig-6-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" /></center>\r\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Fig.6 </span></span><span style=\"color: #fff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Eddie\'s Place</span></span></p>\r\nFinally, Demps paints Eddie’s Place (Fig.6) to memorize Alfred Hair’s death. The building is in the center, and there is a view of the person’s back, wearing a red top and white pants. Birds are flying in the sky, and a blooming red Royal Poinciana tree is in the background. These characteristics still follow his unique art style, and the building still stands in Florida to tell the story of the “Highwayman” group.\r\n\r\nRodney Demps is a unique member of the Florida Highwaymen because of his surrealist artwork, different way of selling paintings, and unique life experiences. Although he never taught any students, and none of his family members are painters, his art style is unique and always impresses viewers.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\n\r\n“Fine Art &amp; Antiques Auction .” Absolute Auctions &amp; Realty, <a href=\"https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://aarauctions.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=2505&amp;itemId=42081#.</a>\r\n\r\n“The Original Florida Highwaymen Artist Bios.” Original Florida Hall of Fame Highwaymen, <a href=\"https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://originalfloridahalloffamehighwaymen.org/artist-bios/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps .” Florida Highwaymen Paintings, 4 Feb. 2022, <a href=\"https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/rodney-demps/.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Demps 1953-2020 Florida Highwaymen Painting.” LiveAuctioneers, <a href=\"https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/113543491_rodney-demps-1953-2020-florida-highwaymen-painting.</a>\r\n\r\n“Rodney Dyanza Demps\'s Obituary.” Obituary in Fort Pierce at Stone Bros. Funeral Home and Chapel | FL, <a href=\"https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/stone-bros-funeral-home-and-chapel/rodney-dyanza-demps-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/stone-bros-funeral-home-and-chapel/rodney-dyanza-demps-obituary.</a>\r\n\r\nWeber, Jasmine. “Florida\'s Kaleidoscopic Skies and Windblown Palms, Immortalized by a Cohort of Black Painters.” Hyperallergic, 10 Aug. 2021, <a href=\"https://hyperallergic.com/669196/florida-kaleidoscopic-skies-windblown-palms-immortalized-by-highwaymen-a-cohort-of-black-painters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https://hyperallergic.com/669196/florida-kaleidoscopic-skies-windblown-palms-immortalized-by-highwaymen-a-cohort-of-black-painters/</a>\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Archive Blog', 'Rodney Demps, The Surrealist, and Undervalued Highwaymen Artist', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '196-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-08-23 09:02:27', '2022-08-23 09:02:27', '', 196, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=481', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(493, 1, '2022-09-14 09:56:05', '2022-09-14 09:56:05', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitist</h1>\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-534\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"434\" />\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\n<span class=\"except-p\">The Highwaymen Collector (“THC”):     When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?</span>\r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">David Rivera (“DR”):</span>       I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.\r\n\r\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:     Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.</span>\r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>     My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-537\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image002-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"377\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>      Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\n\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings and I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:     David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?</span>\r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>       I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-539\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image003-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"379\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">A. E. Backus</h4>\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-540\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"378\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\n<span class=\"thc-golden\"> THC:     Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? or are there some that you\'ve never met?</span>\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-541\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image005.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"385\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>      You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-542\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"390\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>      Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-543\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image009.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"382\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:     How did you actually paint the portraits?</span> \r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>       I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-544\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image006.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"371\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\r\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:      Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?</span>\r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>         Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:      What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?</span>\r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>         I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-545\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image007.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"249\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\r\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:     I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.</span>\r\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>    Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me! The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitist', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'latest-blog-2', '', '', '2022-09-22 10:47:12', '2022-09-22 10:47:12', '', 0, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=493', 1, 'post', '', 0),
(494, 1, '2022-09-14 09:56:05', '2022-09-14 09:56:05', '<h3>The Highwaymen Portraitis</h3>\r\n\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.  \r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n\r\n<h4>Roy McLendon</h4>\r\n\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\n \r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n \r\n\r\nA.   E.  Backus\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\n \r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n \r\n<h4>Alfred Hair</h4>\r\n\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n\r\n<h4>Sam Newton</h4>\r\n\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n\r\n<h4>Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\n\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.  \r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Harold Newton</h4>\r\n \r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n\r\n<h4>Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.\r\nDR: Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me !The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!\r\n', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitis', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '493-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-09-14 09:56:05', '2022-09-14 09:56:05', '', 493, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=494', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(495, 1, '2022-09-14 10:06:00', '2022-09-14 10:06:00', '<h3>The Highwaymen Portraitis</h3>\r\n\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.  \r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n\r\n<h4>Roy McLendon</h4>\r\n\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\n \r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n \r\n\r\nA.   E.  Backus\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\n \r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n \r\n<h4>Alfred Hair</h4>\r\n\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n\r\n<h4>Sam Newton</h4>\r\n\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n\r\n<h4>Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\n\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.  \r\n\r\n\r\n<h4>Harold Newton</h4>\r\n \r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n\r\n<h4>Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.\r\nDR: Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me !The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!\r\n', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitis', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '493-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-09-14 10:06:00', '2022-09-14 10:06:00', '', 493, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=495', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(498, 1, '2022-09-22 10:42:52', '2022-09-22 10:42:52', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitist</h1>\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\n\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-534\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"434\" />\n\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\n\n<span class=\"except-p\">The Highwaymen Collector (“THC”):     When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?</span>\n<span class=\"dr-red\">David Rivera (“DR”):</span>       I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\n\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\n\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.\n\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:     Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.</span>\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>     My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-537\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image002-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"377\" /></h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>      Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\n\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings and I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\n\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\n\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:     David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?</span>\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>       I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-539\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image003-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"379\" /></h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">A. E. Backus</h4>\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-540\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"378\" /></h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\n<span class=\"thc-golden\"> THC:     Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? or are there some that you\'ve never met?</span>\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-541\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image005.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"385\" /></h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>      You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-542\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"390\" /></h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>      Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-543\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image009.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"382\" /></h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:     How did you actually paint the portraits?</span> \n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>       I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-544\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image006.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"371\" /></h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:      Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?</span>\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>         Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\n\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:      What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?</span>\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>         I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-545\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image007.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"249\" /></h4>\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\n<span class=\"thc-golden\">THC:     I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.</span>\n<span class=\"dr-red\">DR:</span>    Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me! The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitist', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '493-autosave-v1', '', '', '2022-09-22 10:42:52', '2022-09-22 10:42:52', '', 493, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=498', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(499, 1, '2022-09-14 10:12:13', '2022-09-14 10:12:13', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitis</h1>\r\n\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.  \r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\n\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\n \r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n \r\n\r\nA.   E.  Backus\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\n \r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n \r\n<h4>Alfred Hair</h4>\r\n\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\n\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\n\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.  \r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\r\n \r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.\r\nDR: Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me !The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!\r\n', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitis', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '493-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-09-14 10:12:13', '2022-09-14 10:12:13', '', 493, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=499', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(500, 1, '2022-09-14 10:13:51', '2022-09-14 10:13:51', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitis</h1>\r\n\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.  \r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\n\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\n \r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n \r\n\r\nA.   E.  Backus\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\n \r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n \r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\r\n\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\n\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\n\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.  \r\n\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\r\n \r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.\r\nDR: Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me !The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!\r\n', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitis', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '493-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-09-14 10:13:51', '2022-09-14 10:13:51', '', 493, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=500', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(501, 1, '2022-09-14 10:18:37', '2022-09-14 10:18:37', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Florida Highwaymen Paintings at Orlando International Airport</h1>\r\nWhen the Orlando International Airport’s new $2.9 billion Terminal C opens on September 20, 2022, it will do so featuring numerous technological and design innovations revolutionizing the passenger experience. The most visible of those will be its interactive digital “Moment Vault” centering the main atrium, as well as “Windows on Orlando,” a video triptych 32-feet-tall spanning 110 feet. Florida Highwaymen paintings at Orlando International Airport will be shown across the massive display.\r\n\r\n“Windows on Orlando” features panoramic views into live action scenes representative of the area such as shorebirds feeding in a natural area, sailboats bobbing in a Titusville marina, the impending launch of a Space X rocket. Three paintings by the Florida Highwaymen will also be shown among the 75 or so slides which will rotate on a loop throughout the day in Terminal C.\r\n\r\nThe original artworks come from Lance Walker, an Orlando-area super collector of original Florida Highwaymen paintings who previously loaned works to a Highwaymen exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art. The Florida Highwaymen paintings at Orlando International Airport were painted by Mary Ann Carroll, Roy McLendon, and Willie Daniels. They were chosen for representing iconic images of natural Florida as well as for their vibrant colors and how well they fit the screens’ formatting.', 'News', 'Florida Highwaymen Paintings at Orlando International Airport', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'news-3', '', '', '2022-09-19 09:32:08', '2022-09-19 09:32:08', '', 0, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=501', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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This chapter, like the others, is a <i>work-in-progress</i> to be improved by the comments and adaptations driven by changes in the natural evolution of the Florida Highwaymen experience.</div>\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Consider this just one perspective among many possible takes. Word choice throughout the guide attempts to remind readers of the uniqueness of every Highwaymen painting acquisition. The use of “may,” “tend to,” and “often” signal generalizations not rules. Without exception, every interaction is different. Yours will be, too.</div>\r\n<h3>“MARKET VALUE AND PRICES”</h3>\r\n<div><i>Bottom line: A painting is worth what someone is willing to pay for it</i>. That said, the value assigned to a painting is generally based on a calculus of several variables with two factors perhaps the most influential: recent sales prices and expected future demand.</div>\r\n<div>Auction houses represent an easy opportunity to evaluate recent sales prices. Visit an auction house’s website and find their link to “Past Auctions.” From there you can evaluate recent “gavel prices,” which does not include the auctioneer’s premium or taxes. The premium is the auctioneer’s sales commission, ranging from 20% to 28%. Then add 7.5% taxes for state and local taxes (which vary by geography, of course).</div>\r\n<div>Example: I “won” a Sam Newton painting at auction for $2,400. I ended up paying $3,096. The auctioneer’s 20% premium added $480. Taxes of 7.5% added $216.</div>\r\n<div>What is the market value? Despite a gavel price (winning bid) of $2,400, the painting is “worth” (to me) $3,096.</div>\r\n<div>In the example above, my experience and data analysis prior to the auction aligned with the auctioneer’s estimated or projected price which appears on the website. It seemed reasonable to expect the market value of the painting to fall between $2,000 and $4,000. That is a big range against which a painting can fall short or greatly exceed.</div>\r\n<div>Calculations of “market value” can be influenced by several factors:</div>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>The Artist</u></div>\r\n<ol type=\"A\">\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Demand &amp; Supply.</i> Although there is no certainty about the number of Highwaymen paintings produced (estimates have ranged from 200,000 or more), readers exposed to the economic theory of supply and demand should recognize the impact that perceived scarcity—and other mental gymnastics—can have on prices.</div>\r\n<div>Livingston Roberts passed in 2004. Compared to the few remaining Highwaymen still painting, supply of his work is clearly limited. However, the “living or dead” criterion is but one factor. Another may be the length of time the artist painted, such as Poncho Moran who stopped painting early to follow the allure of being a professional gambler. As a result, the price of his paintings can rival Harold Newton but not from the perspective of artistry.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Demonstration of talent.</i> Not every painting reflects the artist’s best effort. The Highwaymen story is multidimensional, including the practical role of making money for the artists. The more they painted, the more they made. Paintings that are viewed as representing the artist’s full capabilities will command higher prices that may have been produced in a hurry to capture the opportunity represented by immediate demand from the tourist traffic during season.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><i>Style.</i> Very similar to “demonstration of talent,” prices for Harold Newton’s paintings reflect, to a great degree, the degree of complexity and mastery demonstrated in his paintings. His work now typically requires investments of $10,000 or more. In contrast, Rodney Demps’ style is just now breaking the $1,000 threshold for exceptional pieces and less than $750 for direct purchases his more traditional work. Demps’ style, which might earn him the moniker “Dali of the Highwaymen,” appears at times crude in contrast to Harold Newton’s realism. Critics may conclude Demps had less talent than Harold Newton while fans may prefer to conclude that he simply saw Florida through a very different lens and it translated accordingly through his paintings.</div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Scene.</u> Paintings featuring poincianas might be considered the quintessential Highwaymen scene. After several hundred, you start to see the common themes featured across all 26 painters: Rio Mar, River Road, River Inlets, etc. Within a painter’s portfolio, there will be scenes that are featured more than others. For example, Al Black’s work features three birds in flight for the Trinity (although older pieces do not seem bound by this trademark element). Willie Daniels has produced many river/inlet scenes, each with skeletal dock pilings emerging from the shore. Demand for a scene that diverges from those typically associated with an artist often command higher prices. A Willie Daniels piece that features other components, such as a building or person, can be attractive to collectors looking for variation it creates.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Size.</u> Jumbo or larger pieces (e.g., 24 x 48) command more than smaller pieces (e.g., 16 x 20) generally as the greater space tends to impact the complexity of the work and featured scenes depicted.</div>\r\n<div>One Florida Highwaymen collector has speculated value (sales price) using a standard calculation based on the surface area of the painting. Example: a 16 x 20 painting by Harold Newton would have a surface area of 320 square inches. At a calculated value per square inch of $17.00, the painting would be worth $5,440. Such an approach as this, of course, would need to reflect trends in sales over time to adjust the “value per square inch” and take into consideration the subjective factors addressed elsewhere in this guide.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Medium.</u> The quintessential media associated with Highwaymen paintings are Upson and Masonite board found on construction sites and the local lumber yard. In fact, painting on Upson is considered by expert Kathleen Piowaty Fredrick to be a criterion for inclusion as an Original Highwaymen. Those artists painting in the same style today missed the necessity of Upson and Masonite. Canvas had long been a luxury; as a result, canvas tends to signal the difference between “early” and “later” paintings by the same artist.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Timing.</u> If buying at auction, note that the prices appear to soften during June – August when the Snowbirds (Northern residents who flock to Florida for the winter) return home. The premise is that the drop in high-tier (read: money) demand softens bidding at auctions; and otherwise puts on hold the buying from local galleries or individuals. My theory suggests that supply then builds up until the late fall return of buyers and the corresponding increase in the frequency of auctions creates the perceived scarcity in March and April. Surely somebody can check me on that.</div>\r\n<div>Another timing dynamic is consistent with any the first rule of negotiation: The side that can live with the answer being “no” has the upper hand: Buyers in a hurry to secure a painting tend to negotiate less and pay more; and sellers in no hurry to part with a piece tend to be better at resisting low offers.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Source.</u> Although the tide is turning, few are the buyers willing to spend $4,000 or more without personally laying eyes on the painting. This has a general effect of chilling overall demand. Exceptions include transactions from trusted sources, such as the auction houses in Vero Beach and elsewhere in Florida, or sellers with whom a track record of quality are established or willingness to accept returns, which is a recommended criterion for purchasing a painting on eBay.</div>\r\n<div>Galleries tend to demand higher prices than private sellers or dealers with costs such as rent, staff, and utilities. It is not uncommon to see a painting purchased at auction for $2,250 offered weeks later at a gallery for $4,750. Dealers operating out of their homes, vehicles, or eBay often provide opportunity to save money, but the risk can be greater than a gallery with a brick-and-mortar presence with greater exposure to reputation damage if a customer isn’t happy. Finally, private sellers represent the best opportunity for the best pricing. It’s almost too rare to mention now but finding a Highwaymen painting at a thrift store or neighborhood garage sale is not entirely out of the question. A significant source of supply comes from family members who find themselves needing to find homes for pieces from a deceased loved one’s collection. These sellers are highly coveted by auction houses, dealers, and direct buyers alike.</div></li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<div><u>Motivation.</u> Investors willingness to pay differs from collectors with even greater variation seen among enthusiasts. Investors are motivated to maximize the return on investment--buy low(er), sell high(er). Investors will be more aware of demand and trends in prices with limits tied to the likelihood of getting the targeted profit margin at resale.</div>\r\n<div>Collectors may be in the market to feed their obsession or complement their existing portfolio with work from a missing artist. A unique scene or prevalence of a coveted technique combined with enough disposable income can blow the expected price range out of the water, especially when two collectors are locked on the same piece.</div>\r\n<div>Enthusiasts tend to buy what they love with an eye on the budget. While a jumbo Harold Newton may be out of reach, a smaller piece by another artist becomes a family treasure and conversation piece for years to come.</div></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<div>All things evolve. Fluctuations in the economy and disruption created by technology integration, such as virtual reality and the metaverse, will surely push the artworld across new horizons. The Florida Highwaymen experience will change with it, and the landscape described in this guide will need to reflect adaptations.</div>\r\n</div>', 'Archive Blog', 'A Guide to Acquiring and Treasuring the Art of the Florida Highwaymen', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-09-19 08:55:24', '2022-09-19 08:55:24', '', 190, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=533', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(535, 1, '2022-09-19 09:04:39', '2022-09-19 09:04:39', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitis</h1>\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-534\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"434\" />\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.\r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n\r\nA.   E.  Backus\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. 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(546, 1, '2022-09-19 09:22:47', '2022-09-19 09:22:47', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitis</h1>\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-534\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"434\" />\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.\r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-537\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image002-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"377\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-539\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image003-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"379\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">A. E. Backus</h4>\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-540\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"378\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-541\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image005.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"385\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-542\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"390\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-543\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image009.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"382\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-544\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image006.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"371\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone  wp-image-545\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image007.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"249\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. 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(552, 1, '2022-09-20 10:42:40', '2022-09-20 10:42:40', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitist</h1>\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-534\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"434\" />\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.\r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-537\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image002-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"377\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-539\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image003-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"379\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">A. E. Backus</h4>\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-540\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"378\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-541\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image005.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"385\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-542\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"390\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-543\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image009.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"382\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-544\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image006.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"371\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-545\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image007.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"249\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.\r\nDR: Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me !The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitis', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '493-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-09-20 10:42:40', '2022-09-20 10:42:40', '', 493, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=552', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(553, 1, '2022-09-20 10:44:27', '2022-09-20 10:44:27', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaitist</h1>\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-534\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"434\" />\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.\r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-537\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image002-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"377\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-539\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image003-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"379\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">A. E. Backus</h4>\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-540\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"378\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-541\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image005.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"385\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-542\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"390\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-543\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image009.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"382\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-544\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image006.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"371\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-545\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image007.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"249\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. 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(554, 1, '2022-09-20 10:45:47', '2022-09-20 10:45:47', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitist</h1>\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-534\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"434\" />\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.\r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-537\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image002-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"377\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-539\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image003-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"379\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">A. E. Backus</h4>\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-540\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"378\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-541\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image005.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"385\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-542\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"390\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-543\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image009.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"382\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-544\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image006.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"371\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-545\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image007.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"249\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.\r\nDR: Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me !The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitis', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '493-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-09-20 10:45:47', '2022-09-20 10:45:47', '', 493, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=554', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(555, 1, '2022-09-20 10:48:25', '2022-09-20 10:48:25', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitist</h1>\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-534\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"434\" />\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\nThe Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.\r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-537\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image002-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"377\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-539\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image003-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"379\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">A. E. Backus</h4>\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-540\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"378\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-541\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image005.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"385\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-542\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"390\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-543\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image009.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"382\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-544\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image006.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"371\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-545\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image007.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"249\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.\r\nDR: Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me !The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitist', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '493-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-09-20 10:48:25', '2022-09-20 10:48:25', '', 493, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=555', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(556, 1, '2022-09-20 10:51:09', '2022-09-20 10:51:09', '<h1 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">The Highwaymen Portraitist</h1>\r\nDavid Rivera is a poet, a breeder of exotic birds, a winemaker, an avid amateur billiards player, … and an artist.  He has painted a wonderful series of Highwaymen portraits during the last 20 years.  This is the story …..\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-534\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"434\" />\r\n\r\nDavid was born in a rural mountainous area near San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Raised in a little shack with no water and no electricity his family migrated to New York City in 1959, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  With only his mother, and his 6 brothers and sisters, life was rough. Even in those early days, David remembers sketching, and also remembers entering a city-wide competition in the eighth grade.   It was the beginning of his art career.\r\n\r\n<span class=\"except-p\">The Highwaymen Collector (“THC”): When did you move to Florida and how did you get started as an artist?</span>\r\nDavid Rivera (“DR”):   I moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1976 and in 1977 I took up the brush and painted for the first time. I had gone to an artist\'s home and his work inspired me. I looked at the work closely and I could see brush strokes and I said to myself, I could do this. So I went home and did a seascape. And it turned out pretty good.\r\n\r\nThen I started to raise birds and I went to this big bird place and I paid for cockatoos with a 24 by 30 canvas. He gave me $150 for it in 1976. So that was the beginning of my art. I started painting and I started to get better and better and never had a lesson in my life. That\'s how I started and got to where I am today.  Today I have painted over 2000 paintings and I believe I\'ve sold more than 1500 of them.  I have about 500 in my possession and my work has travelled all over the country.\r\n\r\nPineapple Pattie, the famed art and antique dealer in Ft. Pierce, sold them for me for many years.  And for about five years I had an antique shop where I would paint while I was at the shop. Then I would sell my art in the shop as well.  I love Florida and I\'ve been painting Florida scenes since about 1992.\r\nTHC: Can you tell us when and how you first became aware of the Highwayman.\r\nDR: My antiques shop was in Fort Myers and there were about 14 antique shops then. Of course, most antique dealers have a piece of art or two, and which don\'t have to be expensive. People are always looking for paintings. At the time, I rented my house from a friend, who also painted, and he said to me one day there was a group of interesting black artists that live in Fort Pierce and he grew up with them. He went on to say -  I believe that these guys are gonna be famous one day,  so if you see any of their paintings, pick them up, and he gave me a list.  I started looking for them and I found a few.  I remember I found one quickly in an antique mall for $75. It was a McClendon poinciana with a house and it was a really nice painting and I kept it for a while.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-537\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image002-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"377\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Roy McLendon</h4>\r\nDR:Sure enough, the Highwaymen group did become famous and because I was an artist doing Florida scenes, around the year 2000,  I started to do some shows with them. We would exhibit in St. Peter\'s in the Coliseum several times a year. They would have all the Highwaymen there and because I was a friend of the promoter, I was the only artist in there other than the Highwaymen.\r\nIt was kind of cool to be in the same room with all them selling their paintings.\r\n\r\nAnd I was selling my paintings as well. Mary Ann Carroll and Sylvester Wells were bringing the easels and selling their paintings on the spot. Most of the artists would come in with 30 or 40 paintings each, and they had just about all of them sold by the end of the day. Gary Monroe put out a book on the Florida Highwaymen and then they all got inducted in the Florida Hall of Fame.\r\nI was then invited to do an individual exhibit in the Capitol Building in Florida. And my art kind of took off after that. I started selling a lot of pieces and then I was fortunate enough to be invited back for another exhibit in 2008, and then another in 2012. I was able to exhibit paintings in Senator Rick Scott\'s office and the Cabinet meeting room in the hallways of the Capitol.\r\n\r\nI used to talk to the Highwaymen about it and they were disappointed that they hadn’t exhibited in the Capitol yet. I gave them the information and they got in touch with the Capital and the next thing you know Gibson was exhibiting there and then Lewis, and I think today, most of them have exhibited in the Capitol Complex.\r\n\r\nTHC: David, let me ask you, who was the first Highwaymen that you met in person?\r\nDR: I went to meet Backus with my brother (not strictly a Highwaymen as you know).\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-539\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image003-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"379\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">A. E. Backus</h4>\r\nI believe that when we found out about him and that he was still alive we made the trip.  We joined a big gathering that they had in Fort Pierce in a restaurant. There was like 12, maybe 14 Highwaymen there.  I\'d say I got the closest to Backus to start with. And probably Mary Ann Carroll because I actually went to her house and I did four or five shows with her. I would say R. Louis and Mary Carroll were the artists that I got to know best.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-540\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image004.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"378\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Mary Ann Carroll</h4>\r\nTHC: Obviously. You never met Alfred Hair. I don\'t think anybody has but of the other 25 highway men. Do you think you\'ve met them all? Or or are there some that you\'ve never met?\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-541\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image005.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"385\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Alfred Hair</h4>\r\nDR: You’re right.  When I started collecting Highwaymen, Alfred Hair had died already.  I never kept track, but I knew about 16 Highwaymen at the most. When I started doing shows I got to know Charles Walker and Sam Newton quite well.  Sam did not want to be very associated with the group, so you rarely saw him  in exhibits with the other Highwaymen artists.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-542\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image008.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"390\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Sam Newton</h4>\r\nDR: Johnny Daniels was always very laid back and often wore a French beanie.  He was quiet and soft spoken.  I always admired his art because he went outside the norm to put wildlife into his paintings,\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-543\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image009.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"382\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Johnny Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: How did you actually paint the portraits?\r\nDR: I don\'t recall if I started with Beanie Bacchus or Mary Ann Carroll because I knew them both well. Sometimes I used photographs for my portraits because many of the Highwaymen were sort of elusive and nobody had done pictures of them before. And unless you took a picture of them yourself, there was nothing available. For my paintings of Hair and Harold Newton I only had tiny photographs to work from.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-544\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image006.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"371\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Harold Newton</h4>\r\nTHC: Okay, very interesting. Have you thought about doing additional portraits of some of the others that you did not yet paint?\r\nDR: Yes, I will do all of them but right now the motivation is not there. Because the paintings are taking up room in my house - to do more would require more room!\r\n\r\nTHC: What plans do you have for this collection of portraits? Are you planning to try to sell them as a collection or sell them individually or keep them?   What are your thoughts about what you\'re going to do with them?\r\nDR: I have no specific plans now, but it would be good to get them out there so people can see them. I posted them years ago, but not sure that any of them have seen. Today, with the Highwaymen becoming so popular, they should get more exposure.  I always thought that maybe the families of the Highwaymen might have an interest in them.\r\n<h4><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-545\" src=\"https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/clip_image007.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"249\" /></h4>\r\n<h4 style=\"color: #cab43c;\">Willie Daniels</h4>\r\nTHC: I\'m quite certain there will be interest in these paintings once they\'re exposed. I hope this article is the start of that exposure.\r\nDR: Maybe even a museum with ties to the Highwaymen would be interested in these.  Wherever they take me !The Highwaymen legacy is just starting!', 'Latest Blog', 'The Highwaymen Portraitist', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '493-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-09-20 10:51:09', '2022-09-20 10:51:09', '', 493, 'https://wp.localserverweb.com/thc/?p=556', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
