Harold Newton

{{Short description|American landscape artist}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Harold Newton

| birth_date = October 30, 1934

| birth_place = Gifford, Florida, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|6|27|1934|10|30}}

| death_place = Gifford, Florida, U.S.

| spouse = Dorothy Newton

| children = 9

| occupation = Painter

| known_for = A member of Florida Highwaymen

}}

Harold Newton (October 30, 1934 – June 27, 1994) was an American landscape artist.{{Cite web |title=Harold Newton {{!}} Florida Highwaymen Paintings |url=https://www.floridahighwaymenpaintings.com/highwaymen/harold-newton/ |access-date=2022-05-01 |language=en-US}} He was a founding member of the Florida Highwaymen, a group of fellow African American landscape artists.{{Cite book |last=Monroe |first=Gary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tMF1QgAACAAJ |title=The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters |date=2001 |publisher=University Press of Florida |isbn=978-0-8130-2281-9 |language=en}} Newton and the other Highwaymen were influenced by the work of Florida painter A.E. Backus. Newton depicted Florida’s coastlines and wetlands.Beaty, 2005, p. 42 Most of his paintings were of Florida landscapes.{{Cite book |last=Monroe |first=Gary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zmFRtgEACAAJ |title=Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman |date=2018-10-09 |publisher=University Press of Florida |isbn=978-0-8130-6411-6 |language=en}}

Newton was successful in a time of racial segregation and disenfranchisement.