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A work made of graphite and opaque white watercolor on medium thick, slightly textured, tan laid paper with red and blue fibers.

Flamborough Head, England

Winslow Homer · 1882

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Palette

Putty
 43% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.8:1
Pearl grey
 18% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.6:1
Pale stone
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.2:1
Taupe
 15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Smoke
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.3:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 9.1:1

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 on medium thick, slightly textured, tan laid paper with red and blue fibers
Size
45.2 × 60.9 cm (17 13/16 × 24 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 12

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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