Hudson River School · 1888
The Last of the Buffalo
The Last of the Buffalo (1888) by Albert Bierstadt. Its palette is led by dark amber brown (#633a16, 23%) and light grey (#9eb5a8, 21%), with accents of rich scarlet brown and very dark reddish brown. Overall the canvas is light, moderately saturated and warm.
Color reading
Brown covers about three-fifths of the canvas. Its most vivid color, rich scarlet brown #935C20, takes up 15% of it.
Palette
- #633a16 MG 168 dark amber brown 22.5% of canvas
- #9eb5a8 MG 213 light grey 21.5% of canvas
- #beba95 MG 189 pale golden sand 17.0% of canvas
- #935c20 MG 161 rich scarlet brown 14.8% of canvas
- #b49b72 MG 181 light sand 13.7% of canvas
- #28150b MG 157 very dark reddish brown 10.5% of canvas
Color families
Brown 62%, Green 10%, Blue 7%, Gray 7%, Yellow 6%
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Composition
52% of the visual weight is in the right half, 79% in the lower half. Symmetry 0.10 (how closely its shapes and edges mirror each other). 47% of the canvas is calm space. Half of the detail sits in 26% of the canvas. Measured from the image, not a rule the painter followed.
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