INTRODUCTION

Color wheel, Michel Eugène Chevreul — Smithsonian

Eiffel Tower, Léon & Lévy, 1912 — Rijksmuseum

Water Lilies, Claude Monet, c.1915–26 — Cleveland Museum of Art

COLOR BASICS (AND WHITE)

Portrait of Isaac Newton, John Smith, 1712 — Rijksmuseum

Sun, 1627 — Rijksmuseum

Steven Weinberg physicist portrait, 1983 — Wikimedia (Dutch National Archives, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl)

Still Life with Apples, Gustave Courbet, 1871–72 — Rijksmuseum

Tournée du Chat Noir de Rodolphe Salis, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen — Wikimedia

The Blue Marble, Apollo 17 crew, 1972 — Wikimedia

Ship image - Schepen op zee Postkaart, Joost van Geel 1666 — Rijksmuseum

River Bluffs, 1320 Miles above St. Louis, George Catlin, 1832 — Smithsonian

Cotopaxi, Frederic Edwin Church, 1855 — Smithsonian

Terracotta amphora (jar) 540 BCE,  Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz, 1917 — Wikimedia

RED

Cinnabar mineral, 2009 — Wikimedia (Wikipedia user Bergminer, CC BY-SA 4.0 license)

Alchemist, Philips Galle, after Pieter Bruegel (I), 1556–60 — Rijksmuseum

Bird skull, 1888 — Smithsonian

Red toad “Iconografia della fauna italica” — Biodiversity Heritage Library

Doos met man met hert box, anonymous, 1500–1600 — Rijksmuseum

Round bottomed jar, ca.1850–1640 BCE — Metropolitan Museum of Art

Elephant and Dragons from engravings — Rijksmuseum

The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch, 1490–1500 — Wikimedia

Dresden Codex — Biodiversity Heritage Library

Cactus Prints — Rijksmuseum and Biodiversity Heritage Library

Hand stencil at Cueva de las Manos — Wikimedia

Tiger image used as Neanderthal hide — Smithsonian

ORANGE

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884 — Art Institute of Chicago

The Brook, 1895-1900 Paul Cézanne — Cleveland Museum of Art

Claude Monet portrait by Nadar, 1899 — Wikimedia

Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet, 1872 — Wikimedia

Saffron plant from Flore médicale — Biodiversity Heritage Library

Wat Phra Kaew photograph — Rijksmuseum

Henna plant “Ligustrum vulgare0” — Wikimedia

Portrait of a Woman Agnolo Bronzino, 1550 — Cleveland Museum of Art

Shoe photograph, ca.1937–40 — Rijksmuseum

The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons, Jean Fouquet, ca.1452–60 — Metropolitan Museum of Art

Timbuktu manuscript page — Courtesy of ONG SAVAMA-DCI

YELLOW

Space images, 2016 — NASA

Friends of Krishna, folio 163 from a Bhakti Ratnavali of Vishnu Puri, ca.1725–50 — Cleveland Museum of Art

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834, J.M.W. Turner, 1835 — Cleveland Museum of Art

The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889 — Wikimedia

Photograph of the funerary mask of Tutankhamun — Wikimedia (Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Photograph of Kngwarreye Qantas Dreamliner plane — Wikimedia

Smiley Face Jug — special permission granted—licensed by the Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition to Karkemish Under the Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0

Jungle Foliage, Jamaica, Frederic Edwin Church, 1865 — Smithsonian

Photograph of ‘ahu ‘ula cape of Haʻalelea — Wikimedia

GREEN

Colossus of Rhodes engraving, Crispijn van de Passee (II), after Maerten de Vos, 1614 —  Rijksmuseum

Emma Lazarus engraving, T. Johnson, after W. Kurtz, 1889 — Wikimedia

“Liberty” from army plane, ca.1915–20 — Library of Congress

Greek building — Rijksmuseum

The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434 — Wikimedia

Raven rattle, 19th century —  Metropolitan Museum of Art

Totem Pole Model, Charles Edenshaw, ca.1890 — Metropolitan Museum of Art

Various green dresses — Rijksmusem

Cup with a medallion among flowers, Manufacture de Sèvres, ca.1777–88 — Rijksmuseum

Napoleon Bonaparte at Fon, Giuseppe Guzzi, 1820–30 — Smithsonian

Selected Napoleon-relared paintings in background — Wikimedia

BLUE

Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1829–33 — Rijksmuseum

Julius Caesar te paard C. Ivlivs Caesar, Adriaen Collaert 1587 — Rijksmusem

Darjeeling. Kinchinjunga and the Snows from Kutcherry Hill, Photoglob Co., 1890 — Cleveland Museum of Art

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer, ca.1665 — Wikimedia

Woad image — Biodiversity Heritage Library

Indigo image — Biodiversity Heritage Library

Rue de la Ferronnerie, Charles Marville, ca.1865 — Cleveland Museum of Art

Photograph of Chichen Itza —  Wikimedia (Alastair Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler), Vincent van Gogh, 1887 — Metropolitan Museum of Art

PURPLE

Parthenon op de Akropolis van Athene Het Parthenon, Johannes Lodewijk Heldring, 1898 — Rijksmuseum

Unpainted marble statues — Metropolitan Museum of Art

Regal Murex shell — Smithsonian

Mesoamerican sea snails — Smithsonian

The Banquet of Cleopatra, Sebastiano Mazzoni, 1660 — Smithsonian

The Triumph of Bacchus, Diego Velázquez, ca.1628–9 — Wikimedia

Still Life with Apples and Pitcher, Camille Pissarro, 1872 — Metropolitan Museum of Art

Man met accordeon in een bos, anonymous, ca.1910–15 — Rijksmuseum

Various grape images — Biodiversity Heritage Library

Kieler uit de negende eeuw, Willem Jacob Hofdijk, 1857–64 — Rijksmusem

Irwin’s Oil Lamp Patent Model, 1862 — Smithsonian

Mosquito — Biodiversity Heritage Library

David, Michelangelo, 1504 — Wikimedia

View of Florence, Thomas Cole, 1837 — Cleveland Museum of Art

Seated Cupid, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, 1757 — Rijksmusem

PINK

Mummy Portrait of a Bearded Man, 220–50 CE — Getty Museum

Madder plant from Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz — Biodiversity Heritage Library

Fragmentario fashion photo — Courtesy of María-Elena Pombo. Photo by Luis Corzo

São Paulo LGBT Pride Parade, 2014 —  Wikimedia

Galaxy image, 2012 — NASA

Vuurbok met Atlas, Jean Cotelle (I), ca.1669–93 — Rijksmuseum

BLACK

Elephant, J. Scotti, ca.1829–80 — Rijksmuseum

Ink Cake stone, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) — Cleveland Museum of Art

Old Pine Tree, Wen Zhengming, late 1530s — Cleveland Museum of Art

Tempel van de Sfinx in Gizeh De Sphinxtempel, Johannes Lodewijk Heldring, 1898 — Rijksmuseum

Mummy mask — Smithsonian

Coffin of Nesykhonsu, ca.976–889 BCE — Cleveland Museum of Art

Paviljoen van het Louvre te Parijs, Albert Mansuy, ca.1860–80 — Rijksmuseum

Mummie van farao Ramses II in het museum van Caïro Musée du Caire: Momie de Ramses II, photograph ca.1895–1905 — Rijksmuseum

REST OF BOOK

School of Athens, Raphael, 1511 — Wikimedia

Original cyanometer, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, 1788 — Wikimedia

Mont Blanc image from Die Alpenpflanzen nach der Natur gemalt — Biodiversity Heritage Library

Portrait of Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Jens Juel, 1778 — Wikimedia

Various Pigment Garden images — Biodiversity Heritage Library