color collected:
Stephen L. Wolf Collection
Memorial Library, Historic Deerfield
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color as pie charts
dots blots
color as time keepers
palette makers
color as gridded groups
accented accidents
color as prism percussions
regulated registers
color as absolute attributes
sequenced saturations
color as consumer consensus
compasses quandaries
color as faceted philosophies
fascinating phenomena
color as tangents into treatises
notions into nomenclatures
color collected
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—Munsel, Munsel Book of Color
—Rimington, The Art of Mobile Colour
—Chevreul, Chevreul on Colors
—Chevreul, Des Couleurs
—Hay, Nomenclature of Colours
—Hitchcock, Religion of Geology
—Birren, Color for Interiors
—Field, Field’s Chromatography for Artists
—Gaspard, Theorie des couleurs
—Bustanoby, Principles of Color Mixing
—Walch, Color Source Book
—Jones, Grammar of Ornament
—The Painter’s Handbook
—Wolf Flow Colors, Wolf & Son’s Paints
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Thanks Memorial Library/Historic Deerfield for fruitful fabulous fellowship to examine the Stephen L Wolf color book collection.
NOTE: Application deadline for the 2026/7 Memorial Library Fellowship due April 3, 2026