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A work made of gum bichromate print.

Mother and Child

Gertrude Käsebier · 1899

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Palette

Taupe
 46% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.7:1
Graphite
 20% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1
Warm grey
 20% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Stone
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1
Bone white
 6% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.3:1
Putty
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 8.6:1

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
Gertrude Käsebier
American, 1852–1934
Date
1899
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gum bichromate print
Size
Image/paper: 20.7 × 13.7 cm (8 3/16 × 5 7/16 in.); Hinged matte board: 36.1 × 29 cm (14 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Pictorialism · 19th century
Themes
Mothers and children
Main colour
Brown · lightness 44, colourfulness 12

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mina Turner. 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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