Chart of Colors
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American Art
MEDIUM
Sanguine and graphite on paper
DATES
n.d.
DIMENSIONS
Sheet (irregular): 9 5/8 x 10 5/16 in. (24.4 x 26.2 cm)
SIGNATURE
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"
ACCESSION NUMBER
43.91
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Victor Spark
MUSEUM LOCATION
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