Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen with Keri Watson, Ph.D.

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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 US1 and A1A. This presentation 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 has participated in naturalism and environmentalism, and recognize the ways in which the Florida landscape participated in that history.

Keri Watson is an associate professor of art history at the University of Central Florida and co-executive editor for Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. She is the author of This is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States (2023) and editor of the Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022).

“This program was sponsored in part by Florida Humanities with funds from the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the aforementioned entities.”

Event Type(s): History, Community Engagement, Live In-Person

Age Group(s): Adults

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