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Frederic Remington
The Mexican Major

The Mexican Major

Frederic Remington · 1889

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Palette

Sand
38% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 7.9:1

Sepia
24% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.7:1

Pale blue-grey
18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.2:1

Warm grey
9% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.4:1

Dark chocolate
7% of the image
Black · text contrast 15.3:1

Tan
5% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.4:1

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: Frederic Remington
Date: 1889
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 87 × 124.8 cm (34 1/4 × 49 1/8 in.)
Place: New York
Period: 19th century
Themes: Portraits
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 56, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding 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