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Fifth Lake by Edgar Alwin Payne

Fifth Lake

Edgar Alwin Payne · ca. 1928

Palette

Slate blue
66% of the image
Purple · text contrast 6.5:1
Lavender grey
10% of the image
Purple · text contrast 5.3:1
Powder blue
10% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.7:1
Ash
6% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.1:1
Slate
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.8:1
Chalk
2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.3:1

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
Edgar Alwin Payne
1882–1947
Date
ca. 1928
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
39 3/8 x 49 3/8 in. (100.0 x 125.4 cm)
Period
20th century
Themes
Landscapes · Rivers and lakes · Mountains
Main colour
Purple · lightness 48, colourfulness 21

Smithsonian American Art Museum. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Smithsonian Open Access marks it CC0 (descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access=CC0; online_media.media[0].usage.a). Europe: Artist died 1947: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2018. Last checked 2026-10-31 (Smithsonian Open Access usage is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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