# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 01:00 pm – Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Explore Florida’s rich art history in this talk on the artists inspired by its beauty from Audubon to Homer and beyond.About this EventThe 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. This presentation offers a succinct and engaging history of Florida’s landscape painters.Click here to register.Keri Watson is Assistant Director of the School of Visual Arts and Design and Professor of Art History at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of Florida's New Deal Parks and Post Office Murals (2024), Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations In Higher Education: Transdisciplinary Practices (2023), and This is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States (2023). Dr. Watson's work has been recognized and supported by a Fulbright Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. She teaches 19th-Century Art, American Art, the Art of Walt Disney, and Southern Folk Arts."Funding for this Florida Talks program was provided by Florida Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities."
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/leesburg/picturing-paradise-from-john-james-audubon-to-the-florida-highwaymen/100001956726935939
- **Event Categories**: art, performances, literary-art, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Leesburg
- **state**: FL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Leesburg Library
- **lat**: 28.8114627
- **long**: -81.8747774
- **full address**: Leesburg Library, 100 East Main Street, Leesburg, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen being held?
  - **A:** Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen takes place on Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 01:00 pm to Thu, 11 Dec, 2025 at 02:00 pm at Leesburg Library, 100 East Main Street, Leesburg, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen?
  - **A:** Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen is organized by Leesburg Public Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Leesburg, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Picturing Paradise: From John James Audubon to the Florida Highwaymen sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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