color collected

Date : February 8, 2026


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

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