Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, filmmaker and anthropologist. In her writing she portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s in the South. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays.

Hurston was born in Alabama and moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, in 1894 (she attended a Baptist boarding school in Jacksonville for a time, as well). She later used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. It is now the site of the "Zora! Festival," held each year in her honor.

Hurston is an iconic name in Florida literature, and her books remain as treasured today as they were when first penned. As we have done with other acclaimed Florida authors and using the first page from the first chapter of a dusty old copy salvaged from a yard sale, 904 Paper Co. artists have created an elegant piece of wall art which is hand-painted, bringing vivid color and life to the Hurston classic.

Prints from our Vintage Book Collection makes for wonderful artistic additions to home libraries, powder rooms, hallways or offices. A must-have for lovers of Florida-centric collectables.

The hand-painted art is prepared on Strathmore 140 lb., acid free cold press watercolor paper. The image area measures approximately 4 x 7 inches and is printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. And each is individually painted, so no two are the same.