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After the Second World War, some artists took a global approach, working   

and exhibiting abroad, in Paris, and as the decade wore on, relocated gra-

dually in other welcoming cities like Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Stock-

holm: Barbara Chase-Riboud, Edward Clark, Harvey Cropper, Beauford

Delaney, Herbert Gentry, Bill Hutson, Clifford Jackson, Sam Middleton,

Larry Potter, Haywood Bill  Rivers, Merton Simpson, and Walter Williams.

Some African-American artists did make it into important New York gal-

leries by the 1950s and 1960s: Horace Pippin, Romare Bearden, Jacob

Lawrence William T Williams, Norman Lewis, Thomas Sills, and Sam

Gilliam were among the few who had successfully been received in a

gallery setting.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s led artists to capture

and express the times and changes. Galleries and community art centers

developed for the purpose of displaying African-American art, and col-

legiate teaching positions were created by and for African-American artist.

By the 1980's and 1990s, hip hop graffiti became ppredominate in urban

communities. Most major cities had developed museums devoted to Afri-

can-American artists. The National Endowment for the Arts provided

increasing support for these artists.

Important collections of African-American art include the Walter O.

Evans Collection of African-American Art, the Paul R. Jones collec-

tions at the University of Delaware and University of Alabama, the

David C. Driskell Art collection, the Harmon and Harriet Kelley

Collection of African-American Art, the Schomburg Center for

Research in Black Culture, and the Mott-Warsh collection.

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The current market price for an original Highwaymen painting can easily bring in

thousands of dollars.  In 2004 the original group of 26 Highwaymen were induc-

ted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Currently 8 of the 26 are deceased,

including A. Hair, H. Newton, Ellis and George Buckner, A. Moran, L Roberts,

Hezekiah Baker and most recently Johnny Daniels. The full list of 26 can be

found in the Florida Artists Hall of Fame., as well as dvarious highwaymen and

Florida art websites.

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In the 1950s and 1960s, few African-American artists were widely

known or accepted. Despite this, The Highwaymen, a loose associa-

tion of 26 African-American artists from Ft. Pierce, Florida, created

idyllie, quickly realized images of the Florida landscape and peddled

some 200,000 of them from the trunks of their cars. In the 1950s

and 1960s, it was impossible to fine galleries interested in selling art-

works by a group of unknown, self-taught African Americans, so

they sold their art directly to the public rather than through galleries

and art agents. Rediscovered in the mid-1990s, today they are re-

cognized as an important part of American folk history. 

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Definition of African American Art

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The Hudson Institute of African American Heritage and Global Arts Museum is the product of a life-long inspiration and love of Arts and Humanities. The museum was founded on September 11, 2007; by Deacon Albert Calvin Hudson; who is cur-rently a Ordained Pentecostal Deacon in addition to being a Retired California  Peace Officer and a Retired United States Naval Communications Petty Officer.    

Museums Mission                                                                                              

The Institution was created as a forum for the presentation of the African American Journey and as a medium for the exhibition of global arts. It is dedicated to collec-ting, Preserving and Interpreting the material and intellectual culture of all people of African Ancestry. The museum is committed to telling the story of African descen-dants in all of it's Permutations: Family Life, The Civil Rights Movement, Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Law, Medicine, Religious Technology.

The mission also is to serve the community by providing a forum for the promotion of Human Achievements and Cultural Enhancement Programs, also to exhibit represen-tative arts and industrial expositions.

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