Chart of Colors
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (American, 1791–1872). Chart of Colors, n.d.. Sanguine and graphite on paper, Sheet (irregular): 9 5/8 x 10 5/16 in. (24.4 x 26.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Victor Spark, 43.91. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Title
Chart of Colors
Date
n.d.
Medium
Sanguine and graphite on paper
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet (irregular): 9 5/8 x 10 5/16 in. (24.4 x 26.2 cm)
Signatures
Signed in pencil, lower left: "Morse, S. F. B." [artist's hand?]
Inscriptions
Written in sanguine in sections of color wheel, clockwise from top: "purple / blue / green / yellow / orange" Written in graphite on either side of color wheel: "Warm" [left] and "Cool" [right] Written in sanguine to right of ball: "highest light cool / mass of light warm / middle tint cold / shadow negative / reflection hot"
Credit Line
Gift of Victor Spark
Accession Number
43.91
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