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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramGroup portrait during dedication ceremony for painting by Highwayman Artist Robert Butler at the Old Capitol - Tallahassee, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
Geographic Term
Subject Term
FDOS functions
Decorative arts
Art commissions
Manners and customs
Agriculturists
Horticulturists
Nursery growers
State governments--Officials and employees
Secretaries of State (State governments)--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Women public officers
Lieutenant governors--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Material culture--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
African American painting
African American art
Art
Arts
Painting
African American painters
African American artists
Artists--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Portraits, Group--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Corporate Subject
Old Capitol (Tallahassee, Fla.)
Florida Farm Bureau Federation--Presidents.
Florida. Lieutenant governor (2003-2007 : Jennings)
Florida. Department of State (2005-2007 : Cobb)
Highwaymen Artists, LLC.
Florida. Department of State--Officials and employees.
Physical Description
General Note
L-R: Artist Robert Butler, Lieutenant Governor Toni Jennings, Secretary of State Sue Cobb and Florida Farm Bureau Federation President Carl B. Loop Jr.
Accompanying note: "Artist Robert Butler was one of the Highwaymen, a group of African American painters who traveled the highways of South Florida selling their paintings of Florida landscapes to businesses and individuals... Butler is one of twenty-six Highwaymen painters who were inducted as a group into the Florida Hall of Fame in 2004. Currently Butler serves as president of the Highwaymen Artists, LLC."
The painting, "Morning at the Old Capitol", was commissioned by the Florida Farm Bureau and unveiled on March 21, 2006 at the Old Capitol.
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