Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman

Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman
by GARY MONROE

Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman
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Author: GARY MONROE
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-27
ISBN: 0813030420
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: University Press of Florida

Book Reviews of Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman

Book Review: Additional History and Art of The Florida Highwaymen, in Depth of Harold Newton
Summary: 5 Stars

Gary Monroe has given us a brief history of Harold Newton in his most recent book of 26 pages of text and 5 photographs and 62 high quality plates. The book is similar in size and format to his previous work: The Highwaymen, Florida's African-American Landscape Painters, 2001, also published by the University Press of Florida. Though claiming his first love is photography, the easily read history compiled through personal interviews with the subject's friends, including other artists, belies his deep appreciation for this segment of Floridian history. He allows us a glimpse into the life, loves and very character of Harold Newton. The paintings reveal that facet of the artist as well. Gary Monroe has done us a real service in telling the story and selecting some of the artist's works to treasure.

Summary of Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman

"Gary Monroe has captured the essence of the Highwaymen's spirit through his insightful and endearing portrait of the group's finest painter."--Allison McCarthy, executive director, LeMoyne Art Foundation

Harold Newton was an unrecognized vagabond artist who not only captured the beauty of the Florida landscape but transformed it with an artistry that invoked its drama of light, color, and form while hinting at its dark, primordial forces. One of his fellow Highwaymen once observed of his work, "It don't have to be signed to know it's a Newton." Combining samples of his paintings with biographical details and reminiscences of family members, customers, and fellow Highwaymen, Gary Monroe creates an homage to the man whose work contributed perhaps more than anyone else's to shaping the romantic imagery and identity of modern Florida.

An enigmatic figure, Newton lived an artist's life--aloof and prolific while painting, gregarious and expansive when socializing. Taking to the streets to sell his paintings in 1954, he sold untold numbers of works, showering the state with them. There are "Newtons" everywhere--especially along Florida's east central coast, the Highwaymen's backyard. Their art is in Miami and the Palm Beaches, Tallahassee and across the Panhandle, Lake City and scattered throughout the interior, and along the west coast as well, in Naples, Sarasota, Tampa, and St. Petersburg--wherever there were homes and offices. More of Newton's paintings remain today than those of any of the other highwaymen. Monroe explains these images' enduring appeal while providing glimpses of the African American artist's life from which they emerged, from a childhood spent moving between Florida and south Georgia, to a pivotal encounter with Bean Backus, to his sojourns at Eddie's Place, to the repossession of his 1959 Ford sedan decorated with beach, ocean, palm trees, and nude girls, to the quiet accumulation of professional patrons eager to purchase another two or three "Newtons" at every available opportunity.

Newton is central to understanding the style of landscape painting that emerged from the Indian River area at mid-century, and Monroe creates an attractive, engaging, and informative account of this pivotal artist and his impact on the popular image of Florida.

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