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Book, Atlas of the Munsell Color System
This is a Book. It was published by Wadsworth, Howland & Co., inc., Printers.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Smithsonian Libraries and Archives as part of Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
American painter and art educator Albert Munsell’s color system uses measured scales of hue, value, and chroma to create his “color tree”—an imperfect sphere based on “perceptually measured equidistance” that he determined using spinning color tops. The Munsell system was used by pioneers in colorimetry as a bridge connecting human visual perception with empirical data gathered by scientific instruments.
It is credited Gift of Walter Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1492 .M96a.
- Book, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, QC495 .V3 1903.
- 92.2016.31
- Book, Chromatics, or, An Essay on the Analogy and Harmony of Colours , 1817
- hand-colored etching, brush and watercolor on paper.
- Gift of J. Townsend Russell, Jr.,Smithsonian Libraries, ND1488 .F453c 1817.
- 92.2016.11
- Book, Die Farbenfibel (The Color Primer)
- letterpress with collage on paper.
- Gift of Walter C. Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1493 .O85 1928.
- 92.2016.42
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Book, The Color Harmony Manual and How to Use It
- plastic samples on board.
- Gift of Walter C. Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, QC495 .J33 1946X.
- 92.2016.67
![A book plate illustrating Ostwald’s double cone model mapping three color qualities: hue, whiteness/blacknes and saturation. The model is formed from sixty-four colored hexagons arranged in a horizontal diamond format with a white hexagon at the top and a black hexagon at the bottom. The colored hexagons follow a gradiation from white to bright orange on the top right and white to bright blue on the top left. Similarly, at the bottom from black to bright orange on the right and from black to bright blue on the left. The outside hexagons are labeled a, c, e, g, i, l, n, p from white to orange and from white to blue, and then conversely p, n, l, i, g, e, c, a from black to orange and from black to blue. In the top left corner black text states [Wilhelm Ostwald, Der Farbkörper 2.A.], meaning [Wilhem Ostwald, The Color Body 2.A.]. In the top right corner black text reads [Tafel 4], meaning [Table 4]. The numbers 16 with a smaller 63 underneath and 4 with a smaller 13 underneath are printed in black inside two circles on the left and right respectively.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/335502_156689bc40639005_n.jpg "Bookplate, Der Farbkörper (The Color Body)")
- Bookplate, Der Farbkörper (The Color Body)
- letterpress with collage on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, QC495 .O85 1927 quarto.
- 92.2016.45a,b
- Panton Color Wheel, 2015
- mixed media.
- Courtesy of JongeriusLab and Vitra AG.
- s-e-2675
Its dimensions are
H x W (open): 29.2 × 66 cm (11 1/2 in. × 26 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
