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Grandmother's Peonies by Margaret Jordan Patterson

Grandmother's Peonies

Margaret Jordan Patterson · 1921

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Palette

Parchment
 54% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.9:1
Sage
 18% of the image
Green · text contrast 6.5:1
Lavender
 11% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.7:1
Chestnut
 7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.0:1
Honey
 6% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.5:1
Charcoal
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.8:1

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
Margaret Jordan Patterson
1867–1950
Date
1921
Type
Print
Medium
color woodcut on paper
Size
sheet: 10 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (25.7 x 18.2 cm)
Period
20th century
Themes
Flowers
Main colour
White & cream · lightness 71, colourfulness 22

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 1950: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2021. 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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