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A work made of gelatin silver print.

Sun Rays—Paula, Berlin

Alfred Stieglitz · 1889, printed 1920/39

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Palette

Soot
 69% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.1:1
Iron
 11% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.6:1
Taupe
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.9:1
Stone
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1
Chalk
 4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.4:1
Pearl grey
 2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.3:1

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
Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946
Date
1889, printed 1920/39
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Size
Image/paper: 22.7 × 16.9 cm (8 15/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
Place
United States
Period
Pictorialism · 19th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Black · lightness 23, colourfulness 4

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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