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Book, Atlas of the Munsell Color System
This is a Book. It was published by Wadsworth, Howland & Co., inc., Printers.
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.
American painter and art educator Albert Munsell’s color system uses measured scales of hue, value, and chroma to create his “color tree”—an imperfect sphere based on “perceptually measured equidistance” that he determined using spinning color tops. The Munsell system was used by pioneers in colorimetry as a bridge connecting human visual perception with empirical data gathered by scientific instruments.
It is credited Gift of Walter Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1492 .M96a.
- Book, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, QC495 .V3 1903.
- 92.2016.31
- Book, Chromatics, or, An Essay on the Analogy and Harmony of Colours
- hand-colored etching, brush and watercolor on paper.
- Gift of J. Townsend Russell, Jr.,Smithsonian Libraries, ND1488 .F453c 1817.
- 92.2016.11
- Book, Die Farbenfibel (The Color Primer)
- letterpress with collage on paper.
- Gift of Walter C. Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1493 .O85 1928.
- 92.2016.42
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Bookplate, Der Farbkörper (The Color Body)
- letterpress with collage on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, QC495 .O85 1927 quarto.
- 92.2016.45a,b
- Color Wheel
- oil paint on composition board.
- Gift of Hilaire Hiler.
- 1960-244-1
- Panton Color Wheel
- mixed media.
- Courtesy of JongeriusLab and Vitra AG.
- s-e-2675
Its dimensions are
H x W (open): 29.2 × 66 cm (11 1/2 in. × 26 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
