A Step Back in Time requests the pleasure of your company during this Fine Art Exhibit & Sale, July 3 thru July 5, 2020. This is a free event, open to the public, and paintings will be available to purchase.

Emmett Fritz & St. Augustine's "Lost Colony" artists: The historic city of St. Augustine, Florida developed into the largest art colony in the south during the 1930s and the early 1950s. A small group of dedicated professional and amateur resident artists, known as the Lost Colony artists established the St. Augustine Arts Club in 1931. Later named the St. Augustine Art Association in 1948, these artists were supported by St. Augustine's businessmen and retail merchants, who recognized that Fine Art had the potential to contribute to the city's economic revival. One of their preeminent member artists was Emmett Fritz, St. Augustine's most collected artist, thought to have painted 10,000 paintings during his career.

The Florida Highwaymen, are a group of 26 African-American landscape artists (25 men and 1 woman) from the Fort Pierce, Florida area who painted brilliantly colored landscapes from the mid-1950s through the 1980s. Early on, unknown African-American artists were excluded from the traditional world of art shows and galleries. Although facing racial and cultural barriers in the "Jim Crow" South, they rose above those attitudes. Art was a craft, and a way to earn a living.