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Watercolor, boat debris and dark skinned man lie on beach, dark sky in background.

After the Hurricane, Bahamas

Winslow Homer · 1899

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Palette

Oyster
 32% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.3:1
Ash
 28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.4:1
Smoke
 26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1
Charcoal
 5% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.0:1
Walnut
 5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.6:1
Taupe
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1

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

Details

Artist
Winslow Homer
American, 1836-1910
Date
1899
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Transparent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, moderately textured (twill texture on verso), ivory wove paper
Size
37.2 × 54.2 cm (14 11/16 × 21 3/8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships
Main colour
Grey · lightness 60, colourfulness 5

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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