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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.

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Paul Nash

Paul Nash was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art. Nash was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century.

Palette: #8B816A #D4CDBE #AD925E #BAAD8C #523C24 #6C5535 #89663B #0F0C0A

  • Sign Board for the Shop 'Modern Textiles (1926): #CBB888 #9EA39F #312C25 #9B8663 #685A43 #B79160
  • Behind the Inn (1919-22): #909183 #B3B396 #9093A7 #696C64 #F1F2F1 #C4C37A
  • Landscape at Iden (1929): #8A8766 #AFA477 #56554B #7381A7 #B1BBCB #A5A597
  • Pillar and Moon (1932-42): #697277 #A7B2C6 #455054 #8895A3 #7898C5 #2B3539
  • Landscape from a Dream (1936): #977B60 #8F9EA6 #C68D79 #D5D1CD #656A6F #6E90B5
  • Voyages of the Moon (1934): #CECAC4 #765143 #707B86 #989797 #B39E8A #7D4933
  • Equivalents for the Megaliths (1935): #C9B28E #D6D4D3 #A28C70 #84786C #AFB3B4 #9A958E
  • Battle of Britain (1941) (Art.iwm Art Ld 1550) (1941): #ADAEA3 #7784A1 #D0C8B3 #9E873C #5E6693 #745D23
  • Chinese Working in a Quarry Art.iwmart1151 (1917): #3F3931 #CFC9BE #4E565B #22211F #2C3036 #5E4E3D
  • Cumulus Head (1944): #90ABAD #C1C2A1 #8C927B #8E6841 #465652 #9E6520
  • Down from the Line Art.iwmart1144 (1917): #242424 #5E5B58 #E6DDC5 #604C41 #3E352D #353E44
  • Indians in Belgium Art.iwmart723 (1917): #212220 #363630 #4A4C49 #CBC3B0 #111210 #62593E
  • Landscape at Iden (1929): #B8A481 #50463C #8F7B59 #8692A4 #C7C7C4 #9C9480
  • Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase (16 F): #8391A3 #7A746A #C8C5C0 #95AED3 #4B5358 #7F6B41
  • We Are Making a New World (1918): #251F1A #514A28 #5B331F #7A6C3A #332F24 #A2A4A2
  • Northern Adventure (1929): #BA9C7B #D3AC67 #A17855 #8D7F65 #795335 #381106
  • Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (1944): #BFBEAC #ABBDC0 #646868 #939486 #7B6F58 #AAA277
  • Monument to Fallen Canadians on Vimy Ridge (1917): #CECEC6 #A5BB8C #ACA69E #BBA686 #5D5D4D #838674
  • A Howitzer Firing (1918): #1B1B1A #5C5D57 #333632 #968B90 #D9D1C4 #826131
  • Berkshire Downs (1922): #5A503A #A08751 #BFB192 #C7A854 #3D3222 #7C6138
  • Cliffs: #E5D0AC #8E816A #BFAC8B #DCBE82 #5A5547 #403D35
  • Follow the Fuhrer: #A69462 #89784E #665535 #4D3B1F
  • Gheluveldt (1918): #302D29 #E2DDD1 #524E4A #1A1917 #ABA69C #8C835C
  • The Battlefield Near Ypres (1917): #625D54 #B8A88E #867A69 #423D37 #272422 #B19927
  • After an Advance (1918) Credit-Imperial War Museums (1918): #5B5851 #35332F #D5CBB1 #1F1D1A #928C7E #100F0D
  • Pillar and Moon (2022): #5C6468 #A9B4C7 #7C8A99 #7A99C5 #313C40 #7F7261
  • Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 (1918) (Art. Iwm Art 1154) (1918): #595749 #837555 #35342B #B5A784 #79786D #8B92B7
  • Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 Art.iwmart1154 (1918): #605F51 #B6A887 #7D7050 #3B3D33 #252521 #898781
  • The Field of Passchendaele Art.iwmart1150 (1917): #2E2D2A #4E483B #D4CEC3 #181816 #8F8A80 #6C605F
  • The Menin Road (1919): #8C7B5C #443625 #C1B79C #504942 #66563A #76726A
  • The Messerschmidt in Windsor Great Park (1940): #9F9A82 #838885 #7A755D #585B51 #3D3E34 #5B5337
  • Totes Meer (Dead Sea) 1940-1 (1940): #8CA8A9 #586C62 #A8C6D0 #304540 #9E7A22 #705325
  • We Are Making a New World Art.iwmart1146 (1918): #25221D #6B6338 #513321 #4A452A #363428 #A1A39F
  • Куда бы вы ни поехали, вы можете быть уверены в Shell (1932): #D1C0AF #734F26 #A27134 #8AA9CA #6F7071 #2F1E14
  • Cliffs: #E4D0AC #B19F80 #7F7461 #DBBE84 #595446 #39362F
  • A Howitzer Firing (1914): #0C0D12 #282E2E #40412C #675F3B #C7C3AE #BAA172
  • Battle of Germany (1944): #B3B3A5 #968B78 #747A7F #844925 #E6E4DC #5A3723
  • Battle of Britain (1941): #C6C3B4 #A7A89C #727D9E #919CAB #A59048 #685221
  • Wood on the Downs (1929): #B3A189 #635142 #CBD0D1 #91775A #2F170C #857E72
  • We Are Making a New World (1918): #241E19 #7C6F40 #4E4829 #5A3420 #363121 #A2A4A1
  • Berkshire Downs (1922): #6B5E42 #977C48 #3C382A #C0A254 #E2C15A #B0A68B
  • Totes Meer (Dead Sea) (1940): #89A7A8 #364840 #A9C8D3 #5F736A #CDD8D7 #0B100C

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