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The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer

The Gulf Stream

Winslow Homer · 1899; reworked by 1906

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Palette

Ink
 41% of the image
Black · text contrast 17.3:1
Spruce
 28% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1
Fawn
 14% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.9:1
Taupe
 13% of the image
Grey · text contrast 5.0:1
Umber
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.8:1
Coffee
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.1:1

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
American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine
Date
1899; reworked by 1906
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
28 1/8 x 49 1/8 in. (71.4 x 124.8 cm) Framed: 42 5/16 x 62 11/16 x 5 7/8 in. (107.5 x 159.3 x 15 cm)
Place
American
Period
19th century
Themes
Seascapes and the coast · Boats and ships · Rivers and lakes
Main colour
Black · lightness 27, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906. 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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