If you are driving on Highway 90, just West of Marfa, you may see some Giant installations based on a James Dean character and Elizabeth Taylor. The art shows Dean’s character, Jett Rink, and other pieces from the 1956 movie.

The last movie in James Dean’s short-lived career before his untimely death, “GIANT” was a western epic capturing the drama of a Texas ranch family amidst the prospect of oil riches. “GIANT” has had a lasting legacy ever since, and was added to the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” That legacy has carried on to Marfa, where visitors still come to see where the movie was filmed.

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Rock Hudson played a great role in the movie too. The pieces are set on the Wyatt Ranch, where some of the movie was filmed.

The exhibition was the idea of California-based artist John Cerney,

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