The Storm

George Inness · 1876

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Palette

Warm grey
41% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.9:1

Bistre
29% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.5:1

Putty
15% of the image
Green · text contrast 9.2:1

Lamp black
5% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.8:1

Iron
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1

Parchment
4% of the image
Green · text contrast 12.5:1

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: George Inness
Date: 1876
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 64.5 × 97.2 cm (25 3/8 × 38 1/4 in.)
Place: United States
Period: 19th century
Themes: Rain and storms
Main colour: Brown · lightness 45, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Edward B. Butler 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