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

The Lone Boat, North Woods Club, Adirondacks

Winslow Homer · 1892

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Palette

Pale stone
 41% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.5:1
Warm grey
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.6:1
Graphite
 20% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1
Ink
 8% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.0:1
Smoke
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1
Steel blue
 3% of the image
Blue · 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
1892
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over traces of graphite, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper
Size
38.5 × 54.4 cm (15 3/16 × 21 7/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Boats and ships · Trees and forests
Main colour
Grey · lightness 56, colourfulness 7

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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