Picnic

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, US · 195.58 x 270.51 cm

Lustrous Sage
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Sage Muted gray-green - the color of dried sage leaf, low-chroma and herbal.
Picnic by Maurice Prendergast

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
56.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
22.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
3.1
cool
Dominant Hue
#86896C yellow

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 107°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 56.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 22.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 56.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Picnic" (1914) reads as a mid, mid-saturation warm palette built around Sage and Yellow. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #3864A0 pulls the eye.

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