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A work made of oil on composition board.

The Dark Mountain

Marsden Hartley · 1909

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Palette

Soot
 74% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.1:1
Fawn
 9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.6:1
Taupe
 7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.6:1
Pine
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.4:1
Sepia
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.9:1
Iron
 3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.0:1

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
Marsden Hartley
Date
1909
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on composition board
Size
48.9 × 59.1 cm (19 1/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Early Modernism · 20th century
Themes
Mountains
Main colour
Black · lightness 20, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz 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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