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Ca 1950’s/60’s. Johnny “Hook” Daniels (Florida 20th C). Daniels was one of the original 26 Highway men artists. The Highwaymen were a group of young African-American landscape and skyscape painters, painting un-touched Florida landscapes. They worked in the Florida citrus groves in the 1950’s. They painted their way out of the despair and poverty. Their major influence was Albert Backus (1906-1991), a white man often referred to as the Dean of Florida painters. They would sell their paintings door to door, store to store along the highways and byways of the coast. Their work has been rediscovered in the mid 1990's, and today is recognized as the work of American folk artists. Image 30” x 40”. Signed lower right.