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A work made of graphite and opaque white watercolor, with traces of black chalk, on medium weight, slightly-textured, tan laid paper with blue and red fibers.

Fishing off Scarborough

Winslow Homer · 1882

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Palette

Biscuit
 66% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.2:1
Oyster
 10% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.0:1
Fawn
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1
Chalk
 8% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.1:1
Warm grey
 4% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.9:1
Taupe
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1

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
1882
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Graphite and opaque white watercolor, with traces of black chalk, on medium weight, slightly-textured, tan laid paper with blue and red fibers
Size
46.2 × 61.8 cm (18 1/4 × 24 3/8 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Work and rural life
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 74, colourfulness 18

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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