Area Broken by Perpendiculars

Joseph Schillinger · ca. 1934

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Palette

Linen
24% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 13.5:1

Madder
21% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.6:1

Oxblood
20% of the image
Brown · text contrast 13.4:1

Honey
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.6:1

Persimmon
14% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.9:1

Cornflower
5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 4.9:1

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

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Artist: Joseph Schillinger
1895–1943
Date: ca. 1934
Type: Painting
Medium: opaque watercolor
Size: 9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Period: 20th century
Main colour: Red · lightness 53, colourfulness 37

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 1943: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2014. 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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