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Penny Picture Display, Savannah by Walker Evans

Penny Picture Display, Savannah

Walker Evans · 1936

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Palette

Mushroom
 22% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.0:1
Soot
 19% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.8:1
Graphite
 19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 11.1:1
Warm grey
 18% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.6:1
Taupe
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Pale stone
 6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1

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
Walker Evans
American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut
Date
1936
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Size
24.7 x 19.3 cm (9 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.)
Period
20th century
Themes
Portraits
Main colour
Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 9

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987. 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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