# Wild Olive Tree Roots, Valldemosa, Majorca

By [John Singer Sargent](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/john-singer-sargent.md>), 1908.

## Details

- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 55.8 x 71.1 cm (21 15/16 x 28 in.) framed: 80.7 x 96.5 x 5.4 cm (31 3/4 x 38 x 2 1/8 in.)
- Collection: [National Gallery of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-8dd66d7195da9018.md>)

[View collection record](<https://www.nga.gov/artworks/73835-wild-olive-tree-roots-valldemosa-majorca>)

- Categories: Painting
- Styles: [Impressionism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/impressionism.md>), [Realism](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/realism.md>)

## Image

![Gnarled, ash-brown roots woven through a muddy, rocky bank and sprays of dark green leaves fill this loosely painted, horizontal landscape.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-8dd66d7195da9018-c10ef077940a1618/full.jpg?v=2f797c3d94a7b5c75678b9e780e00e1b67b2ada4598f2e6a8a19655acd0f0fa2>)

## Sources & credits

- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Avalon Fund and Gift of Virginia Bailey Brown, 1991.177.1. CC0 Open Access.
- Avalon Fund and Gift of Virginia Bailey Brown
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

[Canonical HTML page](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/art/wild-olive-tree-roots-valldemosa-majorca>)