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Still Life No. 15

A work made of oil on composition board.

Still Life No. 15

Marsden Hartley · c. 1917

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Palette

Graphite
60% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.0:1

Fawn
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

Iron
12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.6:1

Steel blue
8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.2:1

Pearl grey
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.4:1

Dusty rose
3% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.8:1

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: c. 1917
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on composition board
Size: 59.4 × 49.5 cm (23 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Early Modernism · 20th century
Themes: Still life
Main colour: Black · lightness 35, 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