Harold Newton (1934 - 1994) American

Harold Newton (1934 - 1994) Oil on board, signed lower right, measures 25 x 19 inches and 29 x 21.45 inches w/frame. One of the Florida African-American painters known as the Highwaymen, Harold Newton and the others were landscapists with a fanciful, formula style that involved billowing cumulus clouds and the ocean. The group included Newton, James Gibson, and Alfred Hair, and were influenced by Albert E Backus, the "dean of Florida landscape painting." Typically they painted on upson board, a manufactured product used by roofers, and they framed their works with crown molding and sold the paintings from their car trunks.James Andrew "Harold" Newton was born in Gifford, Florida on October 30, 1934. He moved to Tifton, Georgia at an early age, where he attended Industrial Elementary and High School. In 1954, at age 20, he returned to Gifford where he began his painting career.
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