32,8" ALFRED HAIR "Peach Cloud Morning" painting art printed on canvas
ALFRED HAIR (1941-1971)
Title of artwork: "Peach Cloud Morning"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: undated
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 32,8" or 83,2 cm.
Size: 27,6" x 17,7" (in) or 70 x 45 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Alfred Warner Hair
(also Freddy Hair) was an American painter from Fort Pierce, Florida who, along
with Harold Newton, was instrumental in founding the Florida Highwaymen artist
movement. Hair was the leader of a loose-knit group of prolific African
American painters who sold their vibrantly colorful landscapes from the trunks
of cars along the eastern coastal roads of South Florida. In 2004, Hair was
inducted into Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Hair "eschew[ed] any formal
color theory and rel[ied] on instinct and intuition to depict [a] steady stream
of beaches, palm trees and Everglades scenes. Organic colors were not their
main focus; they wanted to wow buyers with burnt-orange Florida skies or
unnaturally florescent clouds." Hair worked on dozens of canvasses at once.
According to visual arts professor Gary Monroe, "He would tack up 20
boards at a time outdoors, then quickly lay down the color without sketches, as
fast as he could, going from board to board, painting parts of sky, a tree or
some other element. The essence of his paintings was spontaneity, bold colors,
palm trees, surf, sand and incredible skies. 'Painting fast was a prerequisite,
not a deterrent to Hair's art,' Mr. Monroe writes. 'He simply "threw
paint" on his boards to miraculously achieve images that are more about
being alive than about the manipulation of plastic values.'
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