Oct. 3rd Vintage Autumn Auction - New Format!
Lot 234178:
Description
Original Rodney Demps (1953-2020, American) Florida Highwaymen oil on panel. Known as “the surrealist Highwayman,” Rodney Demps’ career as an artist is unique among the 26 original Florida Highwaymen painters. Never selling his work on the road as his fellow Highwaymen did, Demps is included in the group due to his direct connection to both A.E. “Bean” Backus – a local white painter of some renown who mentored a few of the Highwaymen painters – and Alfred Hair, the artist most often credited, along with Harold Newton, for bringing together the loose-knit association of African American “fast” painters who sold their artworks door-to-door along Florida highways.
Size: 16 X 28″
Condition: Very fine.
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