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Paintings by the Florida Highwaymen—an informal collective of prolific landscape artists active in Florida during the 1950s and '60s—are recognizable by their reiteration of the same general compositional structures and subjects: moonlit waters and poinciana trees, to name two. But there was room for individuation: Al Black's Sunset Backwater Scene with Egrets, for example, may resemble other Highwaymen paintings at first glance, but his works stand out for their comparative bleakness and minimalism.