Florida’s Featured Artist ~ Mary Ann Carroll

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Florida’s Featured Artist ~ Mary Ann Carroll

The Florida Highwaymen, mostly self-taught artists who sold their landscapes from the trunks of their cars in the 1950s and 60s, included one amazing and talented woman. Mary Ann Carroll, the only woman of the twenty-six Original Highwaymen, once said: “'From my youth, I could draw anything I could see'” (History).  That talent eventually led to her recognition as “an icon on the Highwaymen Heritage Trail” (Carroll). Since this group of Black ar…