Alfred Warner Hair, Sr. (Alfred Warner Hair.)

Alfred Warner Hair, Sr.

Artist and Entrepreneur. He helped start a folk art movement known as the Highwaymen. In the segregated mid-1950s, this loosely affiliated group of black painters traveled across the state selling their Florida landscape paintings, often door-to-door. Hair and 25 members of the Highwaymen were inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in Tallahassee. Alfred was killed when caught in the crossfire in a bar brawl. (bio by: Graveaddiction)

Born

  • May, 25, 1918

Died

  • August, 08, 1970

Cemetery

  • Pine Grove Cemetery
  • Florida
  • USA

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