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A work made of transparent watercolor, with traces of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over traces of graphite, on moderately thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper.

The End of the Day, Adirondacks

Winslow Homer · 1890

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Palette

Mushroom
 24% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Shell pink
 24% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.0:1
Graphite
 21% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.2:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1
Soot
 13% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.4:1
Olive brown
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.9:1

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
1890
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Transparent watercolor, with traces of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over traces of graphite, on moderately thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper
Size
35.4 × 50.8 cm (13 15/16 × 20 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Boats and ships · Work and rural life
Main colour
Grey · lightness 52, colourfulness 8

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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