Muted Tones

The palette stays soft and subdued throughout, with figures, streets, gardens and quiet still lifes rendered in gentle, dusty tones rather than anything bold. Portraits, riverside views and studies of fruit or moths share this same hushed restraint, giving a calm, unforced mood. Muted tones like these settle easily into a living room or spa.

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Japanese woodblock print portrait of a man in profile wearing traditional clothing with gold and blue patterns, holding a scroll.
Natori Shunsen
Kataoka Nizayemon as Honzo
1926 · Color woodblock print

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A stylized portrait of a woman with black hair and pale skin wearing red and patterned garments against a lavender background.
Natori Shunsen
The Actor Nakamura Fukusuke V as Ohan
1928 · Color woodblock print

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A Japanese woodblock print depicting a woman in an elaborately patterned blue and white striped kimono with red accents and traditional hairstyle.
Natori Shunsen
The Actor Nakamura Jakuemon III as Oshichi
1927 · Color woodblock print

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A seated figure in traditional Japanese dress wearing a red garment with white circular patterns holds two blue swords.
Natori Shunsen
Onoye Yeizaburo as Okaru
1926 · Color woodblock print

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Two figures in traditional Japanese dress with black hair and ornate clothing in pink, blue, and patterned fabrics against a gray background.
Natori Shunsen
The Actors Ichikawa Shocho II as Umegawa and Kataoka Gado IV as Chubei
1927 · Color woodblock print

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Japanese woodblock portrait of an actor in theatrical makeup wearing a purple collar and green garment with geometric patterns, rendered in black, white, purple, and green tones.
Natori Shunsen
The Actor Nakamura Kaisha I as Okaru from the Play Yoikoshin
1928 · Color woodblock print

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A six-panel folding screen depicting tall bamboo stalks with blue and red flowers against a cream-colored background.
Kano Shigenobu
Bamboo and Poppies
pair of six-panel screens; ink, color and gold on paper

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Japanese woodblock print depicting two figures in colorful patterned robes seated indoors with a birdcage, accompanied by calligraphic text.
Yanagawa Shigenobu II
Kokoro no hana 'Flowers of the heart'
Color woodblock print

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Polo players on horseback compete on a green field beneath a dramatic cloudy sky, with spectators lining the right side.
George Wesley Bellows
Polo at Lakewood
1910 · oil

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A nighttime urban park scene with figures strolling beneath tall trees, illuminated by streetlights in greens, blues, and golden yellows.
George Wesley Bellows
Summer Night, Riverside Drive
1909 · oil

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A 1913 painting depicting numerous figures in white dresses gathered on a green lawn before a classical building, rendered in white, green, and muted earth tones.
George Wesley Bellows
A Day in June
1913 · oil

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A crowded urban street scene depicting horse-drawn carts and pedestrians amid tall buildings in browns, greens, and grays.
George Wesley Bellows
New York
1911 · oil

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A painting depicts a dark rocky reef surrounded by white and blue-grey waves beneath a misty blue-grey sky.
George Wesley Bellows
Rock Reef, Maine
1913 · oil on wood

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A bridge spans over dark blue water with industrial architecture and cityscape visible beyond, rendered in yellows, blues, and browns.
George Bellows
The Bridge, Blackwell’s Island
1909 · oil

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A landscape painting depicting a valley with a pond, trees, and mountains under a darkening sky in greens, blues, and earth tones.
Ernest Lawson
Approaching Storm
1919 · oil on canvas mounted on panel

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Brooklyn Bridge spans a misty river with industrial buildings and a red moon in muted greens, browns, and grays.
Ernest Lawson
Brooklyn Bridge
1917 · oil

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A landscape painting depicts white birch trees in a forest with mountains in the background and a brown building visible among the trees, rendered in greens, blues, and earth tones.
Ernest Lawson
New England Birches
Oil on plywood panel

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Two rowers in a small boat with oars navigate past a blue flag on a river, with trees and spectators along the distant shore.
Thomas Eakins
Biglen Brothers Turning the Stake
1873 · oil

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A small sailboat with cream-colored sails and two figures aboard moves through dark water under a gray sky.
Edward Hopper
Sailing
1911 · oil

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A stylized heron stands against a dark sky and blue water, composed of layered patterned sections in red, green, white, and yellow.
Corrina Leidy
Heron
acrylic

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Klimt's 1905 painting depicts a dense meadow filled with purple, yellow, and white flowers beneath trees, rendered in soft, stippled brushwork.
Gustav Klimt
Roses under the Trees
1905

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A dense forest of vertical beech tree trunks with blue-grey bark amid a carpet of reddish-brown fallen leaves.
Gustav Klimt
Beech Grove I
1902 · oil

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Two figures in light clothing work at an easel beside a stream with dense green trees under a pale sky.
John Singer Sargent
Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot
1888 · oil on canvas, mounted on masonite

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A calm lake with turquoise rippling water extends toward distant mountains beneath a hazy sky.
Gustav Klimt
On Lake Attersee
1900 · oil

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