Pastels

Soft, chalky color runs through these scenes of coastlines, gardens and quiet countryside, with hazy skies and gentle light rather than sharp contrast. Water, cliffs, trees and open fields recur, giving a relaxed, airy mood throughout. The blush, sage and pale blue tones sit lightly on white or cream walls, suiting a living room, spa, or hotel guest room.

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Historical map of Alaska and northwestern North America showing territories, rivers, and coastal features in green, red, and cream colors.

Edward Sheriff Curtis

1930 · Photogravure

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Anthropomorphic mice and an owl feed a lizard wearing a red jacket outside a house, with a child watching from the background.

Alice in Wonderland: Mice Feeding the Lizard

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Horizontal stripes of muted colors featuring overlaid linear patterns and botanical symbols throughout the composition.

1929 · oil with incised gesso ground on canvas

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Five botanical illustrations of cyclamen plants with pink flowers and green leaves arranged vertically on a cream background.

Johannes Simon Holtzbecher

Cyclamen purpurascens; Cyclamen hederifolium

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Frederic Edwin Church's 1856 painting depicts Niagara Falls with cascading white water, rocky foreground, forested background, and pale sky.

Frederic Edwin Church

Niagara Falls, 1856

pencil, oil and paper on canvas

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A dramatic coastal landscape depicting rocky cliffs, crashing waves, and a rising sun over misty terrain in warm golden and cool blue tones.

Frederic Edwin Church

Coast Scene, Mount Desert Sunrise off the Maine Coast

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A young girl with blonde hair and red headband gazes at a white rabbit wearing a pink coat, rendered in watercolor.

Margaret Winifred Tarrant

Alice in Wonderland: Alice and the White Rabbit

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Pink fabric with red star pattern features dark curved lines forming stylized arch shapes arranged in a grid-like composition.

Arches of the Bridge Stepping Out of Line (Brückenbogen treten aus der Reihe)

1937 · Charcoal on cloth, mounted on paper

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A girl in a pink dress speaks with a blue caterpillar holding a hookah pipe surrounded by white mushrooms in an underground setting.

Albert Edward Jackson

Alice in Wonderland: Alice talking to the Caterpillar

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Abstract composition with geometric shapes, lines, and circles in black, yellow, orange, red, blue, and green on a beige background.

Melodisch (Melodious)

1924 · watercolor and ink on paper

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Abstract geometric composition featuring colorful shapes, lines, and symbols arranged vertically on a pale textured background in blues, purples, pinks, and yellows.

Graceful Ascent

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Abstract geometric composition depicting a stylized townscape with colorful buildings and towers against a blue sky, rendered in earth tones, pastels, and primary colors.

watercolor on paper

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Abstract composition featuring three circles in brown, yellow, and blue surrounded by geometric shapes and lines on a beige background.

Drei Freie Kreise (Three Free Circles)

1923 · watercolor and ink on paper

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Watercolor landscape depicting a rural village with houses, mountains, and fields rendered in muted yellows, greens, blues, and browns.

View of Saint Germain

1914 · watercolor on tan paper, laid down

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Abstract watercolor composition with geometric triangular shapes in yellow, red, brown, and green tones, featuring handwritten names and a central figure on a ladder.

The Bavarian Don Giovanni (Der bayrische Don Giovanni)

1919 · watercolor and ink on paper

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Abstract artwork featuring interlocking organic forms in yellow, purple, and pink with scattered colored circles on a cream background.

Capricious Forms

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Massive white icebergs surround a calm water passage under a brown and grey sky, with a dark wooden ship in the foreground.

Frederic Edwin Church

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A stylized flower with concentric coral-pink petals and a yellow-green stem on horizontal striped background in muted tones.

1934 · watercolor with pen and black ink on tan paper, laid down

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Abstract geometric composition with colored squares in red, blue, yellow, and pink arranged on a beige background with decorative circular and floral motifs.

Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 10, Old Age

1907 · Tempera on paper, mounted on canvas

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Coastal cliffs in pink and ochre tones overlook a blue sea under a pale sky at sunset near Dieppe.

On The Cliffs Near Dieppe, Sunset

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Weeping willows with drooping branches frame a river landscape with distant buildings under a pale sky in greens, yellows, and whites.

Willows at Vetheuil

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A riverside landscape with a tree-lined path, sailboat, distant church, and buildings reflected in calm water under a cloudy sky.

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The Ducal Palace in Venice rendered in soft pastels of cream, lavender, and blue, reflected in rippled water below.

The Ducal Palace, Venice

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Tall poplar trees reflected in water, painted in soft yellows, purples, and greens with misty atmospheric effects.

Poplars on the Banks of the Epte

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