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Art HAppenings

Highwaymen – Through July 14

From The Street Corner the Elliott Museum
is proudly displaying
To The Smithsonian “Highwaymen – From
the Street Corner to the
Rare Collection Of Artwork Now Featured At Smithsonian,” a rare
The Elliott Museum collection of paintings
that have never been
In the 1950s during the Jim Crow days, several African- exhibited together.
American self-taught artists from the Treasure Coast began While many of their
painting Florida’s vivid landscapes, looking for a better paintings focus on
way to earn a livelihood. Coined as the “Highwaymen,” well-known Florida
they traveled the highways, often stopping to sell their art landscapes, some of
out of their car trunks, which led to their nickname. Today, them tell a story as they
Highwaymen paintings have deservedly earned a place to depict people from the Standing: volunteers Bill Michaud
hang in the Smithsonian, and all 26 of the Highwaymen 1950s era, animals and and Donna Roselli. Seated: Linda Sponsors Henry and Rachelle “Rocky” Grady, Carole Hauke,
artists are represented in the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. intimate vistas. Ryan and Carolyn Michaud Jade Billard and Krystal Holley from the Law Offices of
Travis Walker, P.A. Not available: Knight and Ann Kiplinger
and the Kiplinger Family Foundation
TAKING CARE OF FAMILIES ON THE TREASURE COAST
The exhibit also
AND PALM CITY FOR OVER
showcases an extensive
“Canvas Board Wall” of the
artists’ early works, including
“Our TEAM is committed to Harold Newton, one of the
YOUR excellence in personalized dental founding members, along
with a Tribute Wall to Roy
SMILE that our patients deserve. We offer McLendon, who was inspired
care, providing quality treatment
by Newton, his neighbor.
IS OUR comprehensive services including During the opening weekend
routine cleanings, teeth whitening
of March 10, McLendon and
PASSION procedures, porcelain crowns and Dr. Shannon Plymale-Galinis, his son, Roy McLendon, Jr.,
veneers and complex implant
also a Highwaymen artist, Schumetta McLendon and
reconstructions .”
and Dr. Thomas A. Galinis
engaged in live painting Lois Watson
demonstrations. The Elliott
also hosted a 91st birthday celebration for the elder
McLendon, who turned 91 on March 23.
The exhibit is generously sponsored by The Kiplinger
Family Foundation, Henry and Rachelle (Rocky) Grady, Bill
BEFORE and Carole Hauke, The Law Offices of Travis R. Walker, P.A.,
and the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural
Affairs.
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PATIENTS • They made their own frames fashioned out of crown
We continue to welcome new patients and invite you to visit ARE
our website for special offers. Complimentary consultations SAYING! molding painted with house paint and highlighted with
available upon request. gold paint.

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