Sam Newton was born in Tifton, Georgia, and moved to Gifford, Florida, in 1962, where his brother Harold lived. Following his brother’s example, he learned to paint in the same style of refined naturalism with attention to the craft of traditional landscape painting. Newton soon succeeded in building a distinguished career. Taking great pride in his brother’s accomplishments and having honed his own artistic skills, Newton disavows being one of the Highwaymen. He worked slowly, with subtly modulated tones, careful compositions, and richly detailed scenes. His style is distinctively different from the quickly conceived, roughly executed, and more daring works of Alfred Hair and the other Highwaymen who adopted Hair’s fast painting style.