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JJoe Selby I first met Joe Selby one evening back in 1991. I had settled down late one quiet night, after a busy day in the ER, with a…
Articles on Florida Art
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FLORIDA PORTRAITURE–1840-1960
Joseph J. Hollenbeck, Palm Beach, Miss Democracy, Girl with Hibiscus, Miss Thelma Jean Miller, oil on canvas, 24 by 20 inches. From the beginning of the Enlightenment artists ranked the…
Meet Asa Cassidy
It was back about 1989 that I first met Asa Cassidy. Asa had been dead forty-three years. I was walking down an isle approaching Mike Turbeville’s booth at the…
Meet Joy Postle
For over fifty years Joy Postle painted the birds of Florida. the people of Orange County called her the Bird Lady, and, with her thin sharply defined features, pretty face,…
Emmaline Buchholz and the Florida Federation of Art
In Gainesville they call it the Swamp, and if you’re a Gator, it’s one of the most sacred few acres in the state. The city, with the University of Florida,…
Lillian Wells, DeLand
DeLand’s Oakdale Cemetery sits just behind Stetson University and the historical society: a silent archive of the city’s resting, honored dead. Near its center, just next to her parents,…
Finding Lost Florida Art at the Chicago Century of Progress, 1933-1934
Imagine how you might feel if national icons like John Trumbull’s painting of The Declaration of Independence or Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware were lost. On a state level,…
Meet the Englishmen
In the early 1950’s, as a student at South Broward High School in Hollywood, Florida, I learned to love the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling and A.E. Houseman. It…
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