Picturing Paradise: From John James Audobon to the Florida Highwaymen

Name: Picturing Paradise: From John James Audobon to the Florida Highwaymen
Start: 2024-06-05T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 25 N. 4th St., Fernandina Beach, FL, United States, Florida 32034

Schedule

Wed Jun 05 2024 at 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

25 N. 4th St., Fernandina Beach, FL, United States, Florida 32034 | Fernandina Beach, FL

June 5, 2024
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
25 N. 4th St. Fernandina Beach
904-530-6500, Opt. 1
Fernandina Beach Branch Library
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. This presentation offers a succinct and engaging history of Florida’s landscape painters.
About the presenter: 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 is sponsored by the Friends of the Fernandina Beach Library and co-sponsored by the Hampton Inn & Suites Amelia Island- Historic Harbor Front
This Florida Talks 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.
In accordance with the Americans With Disabilities Act, persons needing a reasonable accommodation to participate in this proceeding should contact the County Manager’s Office at [email protected], 96135 Nassau Place, Suite 1, Yulee, FL 32097, Phone No. 904-530-6010, not later than seventy-two (72) hours prior to the proceeding. If you are hearing or voice impaired, please call the Florida Relay Service at 711 or toll free at 1-800-955-8771 (TTY).