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Dozens of figures in a brown field filled with discarded corn silks form two rows and sit across from each other husking corn, a farm in the background.

Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket

Eastman Johnson · 1876

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Palette

Taupe
 40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.4:1
Umber
 25% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1
Raw umber
 20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.5:1
Bronze
 11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1
Coffee
 3% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.9:1
Cinnamon
 1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1

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
Eastman Johnson
Date
1876
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
69.6 × 138.2 cm (27 3/8 × 54 3/8 in.)
Place
Nantucket Island
Period
Realism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes
Main colour
Gold & ochre · lightness 40, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer. 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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