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Approaching Thunder Storm by Martin Johnson Heade

Approaching Thunder Storm

Martin Johnson Heade · 1859

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Palette

Charcoal
 52% of the image
Black · text contrast 14.4:1
Iron
 28% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.1:1
Bronze
 10% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.9:1
Tan
 6% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.8:1
Sepia
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.6:1
Olive
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.4:1

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
Martin Johnson Heade
1819–1904
Date
1859
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
28 x 44in. (71.1 x 111.8cm) Framed: 42 1/2 × 58 3/8 × 5 in. (108 × 148.3 × 12.7 cm)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Boats and ships · Rain and storms
Main colour
Brown · lightness 28, colourfulness 11

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Erving Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1975. 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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