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Harold Newton's Yellow Day, a wetland landscape with palm trees and lush greenery set against the pastel yellows and pinks of the sky and water, is typical of paintings by the mid-twentieth-century landscape artists now known as the Florida Highwaymen. Even though Florida was rapidly being developed at that time, tourists in particular held the idea that its distinctive tropical and coastal environments represented a pristire natural world, untouched by modernity. As with many Highwaymen paintings, the appeal of Yellow Day derived from its ability to capture this sentiment.