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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow by Thomas Cole

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow

Thomas Cole · 1836

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Palette

Dark olive
 44% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.9:1
Mushroom
 27% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1
Raw umber
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.3:1
Taupe
 12% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.5:1
Lamp black
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 18.6:1
Caramel
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · 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
Thomas Cole
American, Lancashire 1801–1848 Catskill, New York
Date
1836
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
51 1/2 x 76 in. (130.8 x 193 cm)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Mountains · Rain and storms
Main colour
Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 14

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1908. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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