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A work made of transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over traces of graphite, on thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (top edge trimmed).

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Winslow Homer · 1892

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Palette

Pale stone
 35% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.7:1
Iron
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.2:1
Coffee
 17% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.1:1
Warm grey
 17% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1
Dusty rose
 3% of the image
Pink · text contrast 8.1:1
Chestnut
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1

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

Details

Artist
Winslow Homer
American, 1836-1910
Date
1892
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over traces of graphite, on thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (top edge trimmed)
Size
32.9 × 54.5 cm (13 × 21 1/2 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Boats and ships
Main colour
Grey · lightness 51, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection. 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

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