Picturing Paradise: From Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen

The Florida landscape has provided aesthetic inspiration to artists for centuries. Titian Ramsay Peale and John James Audubon came in search of native flora and fauna, followed by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Winslow Homer, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, who were lured by its natural beauty and warm climate.

Later artists, including the Florida Highwaymen, earned their livelihoods selling paintings to tourists up and down U.S. Highway 1 and State Road A1A. In this presentation Dr. Keri Watson offers a succinct and engaging history of Florida’s landscape painters. Audiences will learn about the qualities and styles of American landscape painting, understand how landscape painting is linked to naturalism and environmentalism, and recognize the ways in which the Florida landscape participated in that history.

When

  • Sunday, March 24, 2024 | 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Location

Orange County Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd.,  32801  View Map

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