INQ: Theories of Color (2024)
A guide for students in Professor Elise Schweitzer's class, created by librarian Maryke Barber.
Pigment & Color Books: a Sample
Book Locations
- HU General Collection: 2nd and 3rd floors
- HU Folio Collection: ground floor
- HU Reference: ground floor
- HU Reserves: 1st floor, ask at the Checkout Desk. Note: Reserves Books must be returned on time.
Artists' Pigments: a Handbook of their History and CharacteristicsCall Number: HU-RESERVES: ND1510 .A77 1986 (vol. 1-4)
Volume Information
Volume 1
- Indian yellow
- Cobalt yellow (aureolin)
- Barium sulfate
- natural and synthetic
- Cadmium yellows, oranges, and reds
- Red lead and minium
- Green earth
- Zinc white
- Chrome yellow and other chromate pigments
- Lead antimonate yellow
- Carmine
Volume 2
- Azurite and blue verditer
- Ultramarine blue, natural and artificial
- Lead white
- Lead-tin yellow
- Smalt
- Verdigris and copper resinate
- Vermillion and cinnabar
- Malachite and green verditer
- Calcium carbonate whites
Volume 3
- Egyptian blue
- Orpiment and realgar
- Indigo and woad
- Madder and alizarin
- Gamboge
- Vandyke brown
- Cassel earth, Cologne earth
- Prussian blue
- Emerald green and Scheele's green
- Chromium oxide greens
- Chromium oxide and hydrated chromium oxide
- Titanium dioxide whites
Volume 4
- Pigments Based on Carbon
- Iron Oxide Pigments
- Asphalt
- Cobalt Blue
- Arylide (Hansa) Yellow Pigments.
Volumes 1-3 Online
Artists' Pigments, volumes 1-3 are also online:
Also Check Out:
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in ArtCall Number: HU-Annnex (requestable)
Color: a natural history of the palette by Call Number: HU-General Coll.: ND1488 .F56 2003
The Power of Color: five centuries of European painting by Call Number: HU Gen Coll ND1488 .H35 2019
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques by Call Number: HU-General Collection: ND1260 .M35 1991
The Materiality of Color: the production, circulation, and application of dyes and pigments, 1400-1800Call Number: HU General Collection: HD9999.D9 M38 2012
Mauve: how one man invented a color that changed the world. by Call Number: REQUEST from Roanoke College using OneSearch
Black: the history of a color by Call Number: HU Gen Coll BF789.C7 P3813 2009
Green: the history of a color by Call Number: HU Gen Coll BF789.C7 P39513 2014
Blue: the history of a color by Call Number: REQUEST from Roanoke College using OneSearch
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