Old Homestead Connecticut

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, US · 66 x 73.7 cm

Brooding Lichen
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Lichen Muted gray-green - the color of lichen on stone, ancient and desaturated.
Old Homestead Connecticut by Willard Metcalf

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
42.5
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
22.1
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
-5.4
cool
Dominant Hue
#566951 green

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 134°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 42.5
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 22.1
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 42.5 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Old Homestead Connecticut" (1914) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Sage and Green. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #D2DCAA pulls the eye.

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