His Rosewood painting was unveiled two years later at the Rosewood banquet, and he said during those years, he learned more about Rosewood to create a painting that will capture what happened.

Real Rosewood Foundation and Gainesville Fine Arts Association present “An Elegy to Rosewood” exhibit through March 23 at GFAA at 1314 S. Main St.

In the years after World War I, Black people were thriving in the central Florida town of Rosewood when a White mob driven by racial animosity decimated the entire community within days.