The Lost Highwayman: Tutti Jenkins

The Lost Highwayman: Tutti Jenkins

The impactful legacy of the Highwaymen is intertwined with A.E. “Bean” Backus, who was initially instrumental in training several black artists in landscape painting along Florida’s Treasure Coast. Backus was a Fort Pierce artist who attended two years of summer classes at Parsons School of Design in New York. It was likely Backus picked up on the Hudson River School of art in his studies. Returning to Florida, Backus started the Indian River Sc…