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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, an informal collective of landscape artists mainly active in the 1950s and '60s. Remarkable for anticipating and amplifying cultural perceptions of Florida that became pervasive in the public consciousness, paintings by the Highwaymen are readily identifiable by the natural iconography-placid inland rivers, windswept palm trees that McLendon and colleagues perpetually revisited.

Although similar in its subject matter to many paintings by the Florida Highwaymen, Moonlit St. Lucie is now more highly regarded than other Florida Highwaymen paintings are.

Representative images found across many paintings by McLendon and other Florida Highwaymen came to be widely associated with Florida in part due to the Florida Highwaymen's influence.

Although paintings by the Florida Highwaymen were once celebrated for their depictions of Florida's natural environments, the popularity of these paintings waned after the 1960s.

The placid inland rivers and windswept palm trees that are typical of McLendon's works, which are otherwise indistinguishable from other Florida Highwaymen paintings, help to differentiate McLendon's paintings from those of his colleagues.