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Book, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color
This is a Book. It was written by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Smithsonian Libraries and Archives as part of Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
Artist and philanthropist Emily Vanderpoel describes complex color theories using accessible language. This plate illustrates an optical illusion by which the eye blends colors on a spinning wheel. Here, complementary colors combine to form a neutral gray when the wheel is spun.
It is credited Smithsonian Libraries, QC495 .V3 1903.
![Double paged book plate showing a color chart on the right hand page which is split into rectangles, three wide and nine long. The colors start white at the top darken through pink, red and burgundy to black. The second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth row have letters on the left f, d, b, i, k and m. The colors are also labelled underneath each rectangle on the second to eighth rows: [Hermosa Pink, La France Pink, Shrimp Pink, Eosine Pink, Geranium Pink, Strawberry Pink, Begonia Rose, Rose Doree, Peach Red, Spectrum Red, Scarlet Red, Scarlet, Carmine, Nopal Red, Brazil Red, Ox-blood Red, Garnet Brown, Morocco Red, Victoria Lake, Maroon, Claret Brown]. While the three columns are labeled Red, OR and OOR. In the top right corner black text states that this is [Plate 1]. The left hand page apears to be translucent so that text from the previous page is visible through it.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/337936_74ccc312d22761b6_n.jpg "Book, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature")
- Book, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature
- letterpress with collage on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, QC495 .R54.
- 92.2016.24
- Book, Elementary Color
- letterpress with collage on paper.
- Gift of Walter Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1489 .B811 1895.
- 92.2016.26
- Book, Atlas of the Munsell Color System
- letterpress with collage on paper.
- Gift of Walter Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1492 .M96a.
- 92.2016.33
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Book, The Theory of Color in Its Relation to Art and Art Industry
- lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Walter C. Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1492 .B57 E1876.
- 92.2016.20
- Bookplate, Interaction of Color
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, ND1489 .A33.
- 92.2016.48
- Textile, Spectrum
- cotton.
- Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc..
- 1960-170-2
Its dimensions are
H x W (open): 20 × 33 cm (7 7/8 in. × 13 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
