FREE LECTURE! Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen 🗓️ Thursday, September 18 ⏰ 6:30-8:30 PM 📍 St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St, St. Augustine ➡️ Please register here for the free event: store.staugustinelighthouse.org/EventPurchase.aspx?dateselected=9/18/2025 SPEAKER Dr. Keri Watson, Art History professor at the University of Central Florida, will present an engaging history of Florida’s landscape painters, including James Audubon and the Florida Highwaymen — and how St. Augustine developed a vast artist community even before Henry Flagler’s hotels opened in the city. From Florida Humanities: The Florida landscape has provided aesthetic inspiration to artists for centuries. Titian Ramsay Peale and John James Audubon came in search of native flora and fauna, followed by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, Winslow Homer, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, who were lured by its natural beauty and warm climate. Thi...