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Unusual and Decorative Color Theory Sphere, circa 1900
$675List Price
About the Item
Retains original paper patent label on base and traces of Munsell's product paper label.
Biographical Information on Albert Munsell:
Albert H. Munsell was an artist and a professor. His turn-of-the-century research on color still influences the way color is interpreted today.
Professor Albert H. Munsell brought clarity to color communication by establishing an orderly system for accurately identifying every color that exists. Munsell based his system on what he defined as “perceived equidistance,” the human visual system’s perception of color.
“As a practicing artist and teacher, Albert Munsell understood the importance of being able to communicate clearly about color. He devoted his life to studying color and developed a systematic way of ordering and describing color that has proved accurate and flexible enough to endure from 1915, when The Atlas of the Munsell Color Order System was published, until today. A color system is a collection of all possible colors arranged so the relationships among them can be recognized. There have been many of these through the years, but none have been accepted so widely or used as long as the Munsell Color System.”
Munsell’s color sphere, 1900. Later, Munsell discovered that if hue, value, and chroma were to be kept perceptually uniform, achievable surface colors could not be forced into a spherical shape.
- Dimensions:Height: 6.25 in (15.88 cm)Width: 6 in (15.24 cm)Depth: 6.325 in (16.07 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:circa 1900
- Condition:Age appropriate wear to painted surface and mirrored glass disc, as seen in photograhs,.
- Seller Location:Essex, MA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: U1012318377699
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