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Item Details
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HAROLD NEWTON
THE ORIGINAL HIGHWAYMAN |
| By: |
Gary Monroe |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£39.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813030420 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813030425 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA |
| Pub. date: |
15 May, 2007 |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
Harold Newton was an unrecognized vagabond artist who not only captured the beauty of the Florida landscape but transformed it. Combining samples of his paintings with biographical details and reminiscences of family members, this title explains these images' enduring appeal while providing glimpses of the African American artist's life. |
| Synopsis: |
Harold Newton was an unrecognized vagabond artist who not only captured the beauty of the Florida landscape but transformed it with an artistry that invoked its drama of light, color, and form while hinting at its dark, primordial forces. Combining samples of his paintings with biographical details and reminiscences of family members, customers, and fellow Highwaymen, Gary Monroe creates an homage to the man whose work contributed perhaps more than anyone else's to shaping the romantic imagery and identity of modern Florida. An enigmatic figure, Newton lived an artist's life - aloof and prolific while painting, gregarious and expansive when socializing. Taking to the streets to sell his paintings in 1954, he sold untold numbers of works, showering the state with them. More of Newton's paintings remain today than those of any of the other Highwaymen. Monroe explains these images' enduring appeal while providing glimpses of the African American artist's life from which they emerged.Newton is central to understanding the style of landscape painting that emerged from the Indian River area at mid-century, and Monroe creates an attractive, engaging, and informative account of this pivotal artist and his impact on the popular image of Florida. |
| Illustrations: |
65 colour plates, 2 b&w photos |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University Press of Florida |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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