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Winslow Homer
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Coast of Maine

Winslow Homer · 1893

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Palette

Bistre
49% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.7:1

Iron
29% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.4:1

Soot
11% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.2:1

Smoke
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.3:1

Warm grey
3% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.2:1

Silver
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.3:1

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: Winslow Homer
Date: 1893
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 61 × 76.2 cm (24 × 30 in.)
Place: United States
Period: Realism · Impressionism · Early Modernism · 19th century
Themes: Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast
Main colour: Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 8

Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial 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