With its saturated atmosphere, strong use of silhouette, and dramatic 
backlighting, this is a very emotive image.  It is more dreamscape than 
realistic with flat terrain, and deep perspective, though the especially 
believable sky gives pause. The dreamscape effect is reinforced with 
sparse, but carefully rendered, background elements such as railway 
tracks, telegraph poles, and a station house.  Again we have a marriage 
of American scene with the fantastical to evoke nostalgia towards 
technology.  Once again we have a sense of progress marked by the 
obsolescence of the very technology that contributes to it.



centerpiece of the composition, is placed on the left where it is 
backlit by the low sun and an enveloping haze.  The delicacy and spatial 
accuracy of the model is accented with just a few highlights, which 
occur around the edges. The intricate patterns of its silhouette are 
echoed in its shadow, which stretches into the foreground.  A horse in a 
very natural pose, with a compelling arch to its neck, and a 
historically clothed figure are also silhouetted in the strong light and 
fill out the context for the scene.

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