LI Shih-chiao is known as the "painter among painters" and "the long-distance runner of the painting scene". He was famous for his realism style in his early stage of art career. After being influenced by western modern art in 1950s, Li started to look for new aspects by infusing new modern art elements to his works before he started to work on group portraits and landscape artworks in the 1970s. After Li retired from National Taiwan Normal University, he frequently traveled between Taiwan and the US to spend time with his family and dedicate himself in sketching. Post-regional literature was becoming a trend at the time and the old artists from earlier era were regaining their spotlights. Li did not restrict his style. He infused more foreign elements and new aspects in his paintings. After Li’s retirement, he focused on researching colors, spaces and textures, which brightens up the color use in his works.

Li Shih-chiao has consistently created all his life. From the 1970s to the 1990s, Li started began to return from abstraction to realism, absorbing the style of Bonaire and Cézanne, manifesting the beauty of bright and vivid colors. This painting, American Landscape, is a classic work featuring the style of this period. The artistic conception is realistic and bright, and the subjective and sensual colors are incorporated into the objective and rational landscape. It is a very exquisite and realistic work.