Color in a New Light

Color in a New Light

From chemistry to couture, feathers to physics, color is a topic that links science, history, art and culture. This collection includes books featured in the exhibition "Color in a new Light" as well as rare and interesting titles from across the Libraries collections that reveal the many ways we use, understand, and see color.

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Cover of Mooramel

Mooramel

Benjamin Moore & Co.
1927
Cover of Moore's superfine coach & auto colors  ground in Japan

Moore's superfine coach & auto colors

Benjamin Moore & Co.
Manufactured by Benjamin Moore & Co.
[1926?]
Cover of Moore's superfine coach and car colors  a line of colors of exceptional merit ground to the last degree of fineness - quick-drying, perfect flatting a

Moore's superfine coach and car colors

Benjamin Moore & Co.
Manufactured by Benjamin & Moore Co.
[189-?]
Cover of Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflexions and colours of light

Opticks: or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflexions and colours of light

Newton, Isaac
Printed for Sam. Smith, and Benj. Walford
1704

148. After his first publication in optics (see Herald 144), Newton continued to study optics, and finally in 1704 he published this collection of his studies.

Cover of Seeley Brothers  manufacturers of Averill paint, ready for use

Seeley Brothers

Seeley Brothers (Firm); Alabastine Company.; Sackett, Wilhelms & Betzig,
Seeley Bros.
[1886]
Cover of Spectrum analysis  six lectures delivered in 1868 before the Society of Apothecaries of London

Spectrum analysis

Roscoe, Henry E.; Schuster, Arthur, Sir
Macmillan and Co.
1885
Cover of The grammar of painting and engraving;

The grammar of painting and engraving

Blanc, Charles; Doggett, Kate (Newell)
Hurd and Houghton
1874
Cover of The mastery of color - A simple and perfect color system, based upon the spectral colors, for educational purposes and practical use in the arts and c

The mastery of color v. 1

Jorgensen, Charles Julius
The author
1906

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