Though landscape paintings are most often associated with George Rodrigue’s early work, he painted the natural world throughout his career. Spanish Moss has the feel of one of Rodrigue’s early landscapes despite being created in 1995. In this painting, as with those early landscapes, Rodrigue divides his canvas into three core elements: the oak tree, the ground, and the sky. Here, he pays special attention to the oak tree, which is rendered in a painterly, almost impressionistic style to emphasize the moss on the tree. Though Rodrigue’s early landscapes were known for their use of dark colors, in Spanish Moss, he strikes a delicate balance between the light and dark elements, resulting in a work that depicts the subtle stylistic shifts legible in the work of an artist who maintains a commitment to a particular subject matter.