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Albert Ernest 鈥淏ean鈥� Backus was an American artist famous for his vivid tropical landscapes, particularly backwoods and coastal scenes of Florida. He was a master of capturing light and its effect on the landscape, showing incredible detail of the sun鈥檚 location, the time of day, the season, the wind鈥檚 direction and velocity. He is acclaimed for his artwork featuring magnificent Florida skies, especially the rosy peach colors of early morning or late afternoon. His style greatly influenced his followers of the Indian River School of Artists and he was a mentor of the famed African-American landscape painters known as the Florida Highwaymen. Born in 1906 along the Indian River in Fort Pierce, Fla., Backus was largely self-taught as an artist. His formal art education was limited to two summers at Parsons Art School in New York City. Backus鈥� 1930s and 1940s paintings show a heavy use of the palette knife and his preference for sweeping gestures with the knife in painting storm scenes brought a sense of unbridled vigor to his work. By the 1950s his style and technical approach became more controlled and detailed and his works were usually painted from sketches in the studio with a brush. Backus came into prominence as a national artist in the 1960s when his work was hung in President Lyndon B. Johnson鈥檚 library in Texas and in the Senate offices in Washington, D.C. He was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1993 and painted until his death on June 6, 1990.