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A living archive of how artists work with color across time. Each artist profile scans publicly available works to trace dominant colors, a chromatic fingerprint, and the arc of a palette across a lifetime.A living archive of how artists work with color across time, tracing palettes, fingerprints, and lifetime arcs from public works.

Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.

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Jan Verkade

Verkade carried Gauguin's Pont-Aven color to the Benedictine monastery. His palette simplifies landscape into flat areas of muted, devotional color.

Palette: #576039 #898969 #C1A572 #634532 #7D7B41 #863B21 #BA7F1C #A66D40

  • Breton Landscape (1891-92): #456036 #384632 #593C2D #32373B #515553 #45372E
  • Herinnering (1893): #758161 #505F39 #20251A #6D7A42 #8F8C5C #333A28
  • Selvportræt (1891-94): #B57E15 #90681D #D0A780 #5C4533 #8C6546 #74321D
  • Bernard (1893): #674437 #A69B7D #72684E #C59769 #4C2728 #211815
  • Decorative Landscape II (1891): #5F5E37 #87693D #464B37 #33392F #755A3A #A06A48
  • Decorative Landscape I (Unkn): #8A793C #404135 #6D663E #94653E #B89036 #A47838
  • Herinnering (Remembering): #231E19 #445B30 #809787 #677C37 #A8A069 #363526
  • Herinnering: #29151C #67563E #978250 #CAA86E #9F947C #7C766C
  • Selfportrait: #BD8C25 #9F713F #DDA96B #705437 #A4391C #9D711D
  • Selvportrætself-Portrait: #B57F17 #8D651D #C79B74 #835F41 #8D3A1E #584635
  • Schilderend Onder Een Boom (1891): #37422D #72773B #1D261C #515937 #6F785A #0E1711
  • Schilderend Onder Een Boom in Hattem (1891): #3E4830 #777A3D #212B1F #646E4F #9E9B6B #0D1611
  • Breton Landscape (1891): #445834 #583B2B #2F3C2E #515451 #32373D #493C33
  • Memory (1893): #7A804D #55633B #282D20 #788569 #151810 #979466
  • Paysanne de St. Nolff, Verkade (1892): #464239 #ABBF70 #E5D879 #322C27 #89975D #7C9197
  • Rudolf Heinisch, Malermönch Jan Verkade, O.j., Öl auf Leinwand (1946): #B3A28F #4E2517 #8C6D5A #68493E #A2724D #817872
  • Ghetsemani: #293B33 #5B5F59 #AC905B #9E938B #9D7C67 #797A51
  • Pouldu: #5D6B32 #CD9174 #ACA961 #344A24 #D4CB94 #878E4B
  • Saint Sébastien Dutch: Heilige Sebastiaan: #42352B #725E47 #BE8946 #47463C #7D4A3D #F1A33E
  • Stilleven Met Appels: #38363A #E5E9E1 #8F642B #3B3610 #4B4E18 #BB6119
  • Verkader, la Route Vers: #6B8660 #235438 #C55932 #7B3D2F #9A451E #465E2E
  • Self-Portrait (1892): #B67F15 #91691E #D2AA82 #926948 #6A4E38 #75321C
  • Memory (1893): #5A673D #7D8562 #282D20 #151910 #748144 #999668
  • Breton Landscape (1891): #435A34 #364133 #593C2C #515352 #323539 #483930
  • Decorative Landscape I: #404035 #8B7B3E #6C673C #92643E #A3793D #B89036

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