Hacienda Horse and Rider, historic neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada
Hacienda Horse and Rider, historic neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada is signature Highsmith. Her subject, a publicly viewable physical landmark that she knew was a disappearing kind of classic Americana, rears high in the sky above the madding crowd. The pitch-black sky that comprises the background of her composition places the bucking bronco and its rider as a constellation; a pointillistic riot of neon shooting through space, telling a tale of a moment in time when this was the kind of iconography that America was wild for.
