Painting of a cabin set below a dark blue sky and fluffy white clouds. Behind it is a field of many small white dots. In front, a dark-skinned woman sits and a dark-skinned child plays among roaming chickens and dogs in a fenced-in yard.

Cabin in the Cotton

Horace Pippin · c. 1931–37

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Soot
55% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.8:1

Prussian blue
25% of the image
Blue · text contrast 10.1:1

Silver
13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.3:1

Iron
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.1:1

Smoke
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1

Ash
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.9:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist: Horace Pippin
Date: c. 1931–37
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on cotton, mounted on Masonite
Size: 51 × 85 cm (20 × 33 1/2 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Early Modernism · 20th century
Themes: Landscapes · Birds · Work and rural life
Main colour: Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Thomas F. Pick and Mary P. Hines in memory of their mother Frances W. Pick. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Cabin in the Cotton

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