Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

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Roy McLendon’s Moonlit St. Lucie, a riverscape featuring the silhouette of a single palm tree against the backdrop of shimmering water and a brilliant moonlit sky, is typical of paintings by the Florida Highwaymen, loosely affiliated landscape artists mainly active in Fort Pierce, Florida, during the 1950s and ’60s. Some art historians suggest that Highwaymen paintings played a role in shaping popular perceptions of the state that persist today: the natural iconography that McLendon and colleagues constantly revisited—placid inland rivers, windswept palm trees—is now seen as classically Floridian.

To describe the historical circumstances in which paintings by the Florida Highwaymen experienced a resurgence in popularity

To explain that a particular painting by Roy McLendon has had greater influence on the broader culture of the state of Florida than is generally acknowledged

To contrast the public’s reaction during the 1950s and ’60s to a particular painting by Roy McLendon with more recent reactions to it

To present the argument that paintings by the Florida Highwaymen likely helped to create a particular widespread impression of Florida