THE ARTISTSA.E. BackusAlfred Hair Harold Newton R. A. (Roy) McLendon James Gibson Livingston (Castro) Roberts Mary Ann Carroll Al Black Sam Newton Curtis Arnett Hezekiah Baker Ellis Buckner George Buckner Robert Butler Johnny Daniels Willie Daniels Rodney Demps Issac Knight R. L. (Robert) Lewis John Maynor Alphonso (Poncho) Moran Lemuel Newton Willie Reagan Carnell (Pete) Smith Charles Walker S. M. (Sylvester) Wells Charles Wheeler |
THE ARTISTSCarnell “Pete” Smith. Road to the River Carnell (Pete) Smith Smith attended Lincoln Park Academy and became friends with Alfred Hair, who later married his sister, Doretha. He was one of Hair’s salesmen and would occasionally paint. “Anything was better than working in the fields. I never ran into any hardship on the road. Everything has to do with who you are. You have some people who are racist, some white people who just don’t like blacks,” he said. One time he was out selling Hair’s still-wet paintings and went into the office of a man who knew Hair who accused him of stealing the paintings from Hair. “I sold a lot of paintings in Miami…we had moved to Miami and were just coming back,” Smith said of the time right before Hair’s death. “This was going to be our last time to come to Fort Pierce to paint, and Alfred had a lot of dreams of all the stuff he wanted to do. We was all excited, pumped up. And he was all ready to go.” Smith is now a pastor at a church in Pennsylvania.
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