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Olive

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Olive (#808000) is a deep warm shade that appears across 5 master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Camille Pissarro, Theodor Philipsen, and Albert Joseph Moore and the Impressionism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Smoky black (#100C08), Dark olive green (#556B2F), and Bone (#E3DAC9). The combination forms an earthy, lived-in chord, built on closely related hues, reads as a unified warm palette, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

Assouan, Morning palette card
Assouan, Morning
Albert Marquet
Ganges (Cold ravine) palette card
Ganges (Cold ravine)
Nicholas Roerich · 1946
Self portrait at Lezaven palette card
Self portrait at Lezaven
Paul Gauguin · 1888
Azaleas palette card
Azaleas
Albert Joseph Moore · 1868
Paysage, Ou Promenade Familiale palette card
Paysage, Ou Promenade Familiale
Paul Gauguin · 1901
Spring Plowing palette card
Spring Plowing
Grant Wood · 1932

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Olive

5 palettes where Olive appears prominently — one per artist.

Camille Pissarro Palette 9 - Veiled Chamois

Camille Pissarro

18.8% Olive

Theodor Philipsen Palette 4 - Soft Calico

Theodor Philipsen

18.6% Olive

Albert Joseph Moore Palette 5 - Soft Fawn

Albert Joseph Moore

17.0% Olive

Joseph DeCamp Palette 7 - Veiled Fawn

Joseph DeCamp

15.4% Olive

Alfred William Finch Palette 3 - Veiled Tawny

Alfred William Finch

15.2% Olive

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