Pigeon Point Lighthouse artwork depicts a scenic coastal landscape with a lighthouse as the central focal point. 

Pigeon Point Lighthouse painting by Michael Silbaugh. Perched on a cliff on the central California coast, 50 miles south of San Francisco. The 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse, one of the tallest lighthouses in America, has been guiding mariners since 1872. The point was named for an earlier shipwreck, that of the Carrier Pigeon in 1853.
After three more wrecks in the 1860s, the San Mateo County Gazette wrote: "No other one place on the Pacific Coast has proved so fatal to navigators as this locality...all of the vessels that have been lost in the vicinity of Pigeon Point have been wrecked in consequence of dense fog which prevented the land from being sighted until the vessels were among the breakers."
First lit in 1872, the lighthouse prevented many disasters, but not all. One of the tallest lighthouses in America, it has been guiding mariners since 1872. Its five-wick lard oil lamp, and first-order Fresnel lens, comprised of 1,008 prisms, The lens stands 16 feet tall, 6 feet in diameter, and weighs 2,000 pounds.
Now on display in the Fog Signal building, it sat in a lantern room constructed at the Lighthouse Service's general depot in New York before being shipped around the Horn. Although the original Fresnel lens is no longer in use, the lighthouse is still an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation using a Vega Marine Rotating

The surrounding landscape features rugged terrain with grass and shrubs, primarily in shades of green, and rocky formations that protrude from the sea, adding to the rough coastal character of the scene. The sky overhead is dynamic, with a mix of fluffy white and darker clouds, suggesting a changing weather atmosphere. Behind the lighthouse, radiant beams of sunlight break through the clouds, creating a dramatic and luminous backdrop that casts light on the water and landscape below.

In terms of color palette, the artwork employs a contrast between the cool blues of the sea and the warmer yellows and whites from the sky, creating a visually striking and harmonious composition. The painting style conveys a sense of texture and realism through detailed brushwork, capturing the raw beauty of a coastal lighthouse scene.

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo movie scene of a lighthouse was shot at Pigeon Point Lighthouse starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.

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