Chart of Colors
n.d.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American, 1791-1872
American Art
- Maker/Artist
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Sanguine and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet (irregular): 9 5/8 x 10 5/16 in. (24.4 x 26.2 cm)
- Inscribed
- 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"
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 43.91
- Credit Line
- Gift of Victor Spark
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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