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

The Outlook, Maine Coast

Winslow Homer · 1894

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Palette

Silver
 57% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1
Ash
 34% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.7:1
Slate
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.4:1
Charcoal
 2% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.5:1
Fawn
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1
Cinnamon
 1% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.6:1

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
1894
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
Transparent watercolor, with traces of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting, spatter and traces of scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick, slightly textured, ivory wove paper
Size
35.4 × 50.5 cm (13 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast
Main colour
Grey · lightness 67, 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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