"Coast Scene" Original Oil By Florida Artist Albert Ernest Backus 1906-1990
Signed Lower Right
Oil on Canvas
Painting Size: 30 By 40 inches.
Frame Size: 36 by 46 inches.
Created in 1950's
CONDITION
Good Condition
Biography from the Archives of askART
Biography photo for Albert Ernest (Beanie) Backus
A painter whose career was almost entirely focused on Florida landscapes, skyscapes, people and botanics, Albert Backus is regarded as the Dean of Florida Painters. He first received attention for his still-lifes, especially hibiscus, and later for his landscape and figure works of the Florida backwoods country.
Although he was basically self-taught, taking summer classes at the Parsons School in New York City, he gave lessons to numerous artists. Today, among persons knowledgeable about American folk art, Albert Backus is known as the most influential person of The Highwaymen, a group of 1950s African-Americans who are arguably the best known of the Florida folk-art painters. Using art expression as a way of working through their despair at having no future beyond their jobs as workers in citrus groves and packing houses, The Highwaymen sold paintings out of their vehicles. Described as creating "hybrid versions" of the painting style of Backus, (Neal) members of the group, whose leader Alfred Hair was a student of Backus, were also inspired by his personal advocation of equal rights and racial tolerance.
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Good Condition