Water Lily

Margaret Jordan Patterson · 1916

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Palette

Denim
67% of the image
Blue · text contrast 8.8:1

Old gold
20% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.7:1

Mushroom
7% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1

Blue-grey
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.4:1

Slate
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.3:1

Green earth
1% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.7:1

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: Margaret Jordan Patterson
1867–1950
Date: 1916
Type: Print
Medium: color woodcut on paper
Size: image: 10 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (26.8 x 18.6 cm)
Period: 20th century
Themes: Landscapes · Flowers
Main colour: Blue · lightness 40, colourfulness 28

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

Water Lily

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