White Sand Bluffs, on Santa Rosa Island, Near Pensacola
1834-1835
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.6 × 69.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135631
George Catlin painted this scene in the winter of 1834-35, during his visit to Florida. “This sketch,” he later wrote, “was made on Santa Rosa Island, within a few miles of Pensacola . . . The hills of sand are as purely white as snow, and fifty or sixty feet in height, and supporting on their tops, and in their sides, clusters of magnolia bushes---of myrtle---of palmetto and heather, all of whic…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1834-1835 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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