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Untitled (Radio) by Bill Traylor, c. 1940–1942. Opaque watercolor and graphite on printed advertising paperboard, 32 1/2 by 24 1/2 inches.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowmnent; photograph by Gene Young.
COLOR THEORY
Theory of Colors (1810), and way,
way before Pantone, A. Boogert set out to create a comprehensive manual of colors. His
nine-hundred-page anthology of color samples is unique, and is now available in digital high-resolution on the website of the Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence, France. (
An expanded version of
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours an 1814 guide to the colors of the natural world, organized by German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner will be published next month as