Prince famously rephotographed and appropriated iconic American cowboy imagery from Marlboro advertisements, creating large scale works that reframe Western mythology through a pop art lens with bold graphic impact, directly parallel to Young's silkscreened cowboys.

Warhol pioneered the silkscreen technique to transform pop culture and cinematic iconography into vibrant high contrast prints using bold limited color palettes, the exact same method and cultural approach Young employs in this Western film homage.

Clive Barker's pop inflected imagery of heroic masculine archetypes rendered in bold graphic tones shares the same cinematic iconography and cultural mythology that Young captures in his silkscreened cowboys, bridging British pop sensibility with American Western legend.