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MARTIN & PALM BEACH AREA MUSEUMS
AH-TAH-THI-KI MUSEUM JOHNSON HISTORY MUSEUM
34725 W. Boundary Rd., Clewiston 33440 300 N. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach 33401
877/902-1113 www.ahtahthiki.com 561/832-4164 www.hspbc.org
ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS LIGHTHOUSE ART CENTER
2051 S. Flagler Dr., West Palm Beach 33401 373 Tequesta Dr., Tequesta 33469
561/832-5328 www.ansg.org 561/746-3101 www.lighthousearts.org
ARMORY ART CENTER MORIKAMI MUSEUM & GARDENS
811 Park Pl., West Palm Beach 33401 4000 Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach 33446
561/832-1776 www.armoryart.org 561/495-0233 www.morikami.org
BOCA RATON HISTORICAL SOC. & MUSEUM MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN
71 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton, 33432 531 North Military Tr., West Palm Beach, 33415
561/395-6766 www.bocahistory.org 561/233-1757 www.mounts.org
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART NORTON MUSEUM OF ART
501 Plaza Real, Mizner Park, Boca Raton 33432 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach 33401
561/392-2500 www.bocamuseum.org 561/832-5196 www.norton.org
DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OLD SCHOOL SQUARE
3 NE 1st St., Delray Beach 33444 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach 33444
561/274-9578, www.delraybeachhistory.org 561/243-7922 http://oldschoolsquare.org
FLAGLER MUSEUM PALM BEACH MARITIME MUSEUM
One Whitehall Way, Palm Beach 33480 2400 North Flagler Dr., West Palm Beach 33407
561/655-2833 www.flagler.org 561/832-7428 www.pbmm.info/
GALLERIES AT FL ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS
777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton 33431 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach, 33480
561/297-2661 www.fau.edu/galleries 561/655-7227 www.fourarts.org
Jim Fitch commentator on the arts and
has invested over forty years as a
Florida arts advocate as a gallery
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owner, artists representative
They were bringing art to their and art promoter. Jim looks a
expanding market by going door- lot younger than his eighty-three
to-door, becoming like the old-time years, and he has the vitality of a
Fuller Brush Man. man half his age. I’m grateful for
The Highwaymen might have our friendship and his contribution
been a shining light in Jim’s to Florida arts.
career but they were not his end Gary Monroe began his literary
game. He incorporated, with family pursuits with The Highwaymen: Florida’s
and friends, the Florida Masters African-American Landscape Painters.
Collection for which he served In subsequent articles and books,
as acquisition agent at the time including Harold Newton: The Original
when he named The Highwaymen. Highwayman, The Highwaymen Murals:
In 2001 he founded and served Al Black’s Concrete Dreams, and Mary Ann
as curator for the South Florida Carroll: First Lady of the Highwaymen,
Mr. Monroe continued to tell this inspiring
Community College’s Museum of story. Based on his nomination, these
Florida Art and Culture. In 2005 he painters were inducted into the Florida
became semi-retired, still working Artists Hall of Fame in 2004. He has
with the Florida Masters Collection written other books about Florida art.
and taking on consulting and Mr. Monroe can be reached through his
curating jobs. Jim is a frequent website at www.floridafolkart.net.
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