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Umber

#635147

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Umber (#635147) is a deep warm shade that appears across 20+ master palettes in our corpus, most prominently in the work of Joseph Kreutzinger, Charles Maurin, and Anatole Vely French and the Neoclassicism tradition. Master painters paired it most often with Raisin black (#242124), Ebony (#555D50), and Ash gray (#B2BEB5). The combination forms an earthy, lived-in chord, pairs with restrained, near-neutral companions that let the source carry the chord, with the pair colors held at a similar value to the source.

Artworks Featuring This Color

The Garden palette card
The Garden
Frederick Carl Frieseke · 1915
Smoker palette card
Smoker
Paul Cezanne · 1892
Trees and houses palette card
Trees and houses
Paul Cezanne · 1886
Ponte della Paglia palette card
Ponte della Paglia
Maurice Prendergast · 1898
Devidar Narsinga palette card
Devidar Narsinga
Nicholas Roerich · 1932
At the Dressing Table palette card
At the Dressing Table
Zinaida Serebriakova · 1909

Master palettes

Palettes Featuring Umber

6 palettes where Umber appears prominently — one per artist.

Joseph Kreutzinger Palette 1 - Shadowed Caramel

Joseph Kreutzinger

40.6% Umber

Charles Maurin Palette 3 - Muted Gamboge

Charles Maurin

38.8% Umber

Anatole Vely French Palette 3 - Shadowed Caramel

Anatole Vely French

33.1% Umber

William Maw Egley Palette 2 - Shadowed Parchment

William Maw Egley

28.2% Umber

Vincenzo Camuccini Palette 6 - Shadowed Gamboge

Vincenzo Camuccini

27.7% Umber

Yasuo Kuniyoshi Master Palette - Muted Tawny

Yasuo Kuniyoshi

27.6% Umber

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