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The Forbes Pigment Collection contains an assortment of over 3,000 synthetic as well as organic pigments that helps conservators, curators, as well as students study as well as safeguard artworks.
Pigment is a really pocket-size particle of coloured fabric that is mixed inward amongst a binding medium. The pigment gives pigment its colour.Narayan Khandekar Director of the Straus Center for Conservation as well as Technical Studies as well as Senior Conservation Scientist
This postal service is about:
  • an overview of the history behind the collection
  • a video of what it looks similar as well as what it does
  • images of pigments inward the collection
  • reading fabric (at the end) for the color nerds who honey this form of matter (like me!) 

Tubes of pigment 
The collection of pigments was created past times the slow Edward Waldo Forbes, onetime Director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University (1909-1945).

He regarded the Museum equally a laboratory for fine art history. He founded the Center for Conservation as well as Technical Studies, which was subsequently renamed the Straus Center for Conservation as well as Technical Studies at Harvard University.
  • the latter at in i lawsuit houses the heart collection of pigments from the Forbes Collection
  • Forbes' ain mortal collection of pigments is located at the Institute for Fine Arts Conservation 
The collection provides fabric which enables pigments inward paintings to endure identified for both restoration as well as conservation - as well as to negate claims beingness made for mistaken paintings! 


This is a video virtually the collection as well as how they are protected



Interestingly the Museum of Fine Art inward Boston has a page which unpicks the pigments downward to their chemic composition.

To run across what each pigment is made of:

  • Go to Forbes Pigment Database page
  • Click i of the colours of pigments - listed inward blue
  • then click i of the categories of that color (listed below)
  • then click i of the defined subsets to run across the sources of color (see after listing of pigments below for an example)

White Pigments

  • 1.01 WHITE - Calcium Compounds
  • 1.02 WHITE - Aluminum Compounds
  • 1.03 WHITE - Magnesium Compounds
  • 1.04 WHITE - Silica Compounds
  • 1.05 WHITE - Lead Whites
  • 1.06 WHITE - Zinc Compounds
  • 1.06 WHITE - Zinc White
  • 1.07 WHITE - Barium White
  • 1.08 WHITE - Antimony Oxide
  • 1.09 WHITE - Titanium White (after 1920)
  • 1.10 WHITE - Unidentified
  • 1.20 WHITE - Japanese or Chinese
  • 1.20 White - Japanese or Chinese

Black Pigments

  • 2.01 BLACK - Carbon Blacks
  • 2.02 BLACK - Bone Blacks
  • 2.03 BLACK - Plant Blacks
  • 2.05 BLACK - Artificial Blacks
  • 2.06 BLACK - Inks
  • 2.07 BLACK - Miscellaneous
  • 2.20 BLACK - Oriental Pigments

Yellow Pigments

  • 3.01 YELLOW - Litharge/Massicot
  • 3.02 YELLOW - Orpiment
  • 3.03 YELLOW - Sienna
  • 3.04 YELLOW - Yellow Ochre
  • 3.05 YELLOW - Gamboge
  • 3.06 YELLOW - Naples Yellow
  • 3.07 YELLOW - Saffron
  • 3.08 YELLOW - Chrome Yellow
  • 3.09 YELLOW - Yellow Lake
  • 3.10 YELLOW - Cadmium Yellow
  • 3.11 YELLOW - Cobalt Yellow
  • 3.12 YELLOW - Mars yellow
  • 3.13 YELLOW - TitaniumYellow
  • 3.14 YELLOW - Indian Yellow
  • 3.15 YELLOW - Miscellaneous
  • 3.20 YELLOW - Oriental Pigments

Brown Pigments

  • 4.01 BROWN - Burnt Umber
  • 4.02 BROWN - Raw Umber
  • 4.03 BROWN - Burnt Terra Verte
  • 4.04 BROWN - Bituminous Browns
  • 4.06 BROWN - Mars Brown
  • 4.07 BROWN - Miscellaneous
  • 4.20 BROWN - Oriental Brown

Orange Pigments

  • 5.01 ORANGE - Arsenic Sulfides
  • 5.02 ORANGE - Chrome Orange
  • 5.03 ORANGE - Cadmium Orange
  • 5.04 ORANGE - Molybdate Orange
  • 5.05 ORANGE - Miscellaneous
  • 5.20 ORANGE - Oriental Pigments

Red Pigments
  • 6.01 RED - Burnt Siennas
  • 6.02 RED - Natural Iron Oxide Reds
  • 6.03 RED - Natural Dyes as well as Stains
  • 6.04 RED - Synthetic Red Dyestuffs
  • 6.05 RED - Vermilion
  • 6.06 RED - Ultramarine Red
  • 6.07 RED - Cadmium Red
  • 6.08 RED - Mars Red
  • 6.09 RED - Miscellaneous
  • 6.20 RED - Oriental Pigments
  • Violet Pigments
  • 7.01 VIOLET - Violet Pigments (artificial)
  • 7.20 VIOLET - Oriental Pigments

Armenian Bole, Red Bole, 1906. Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center
for Conservation as well as Technical Studies,
The Forbes pigment collection, Straus.203. 

Blue Pigments

  • 8.01 BLUE - Copper Blues (Carbonates as well as Oxides)
  • 8.02 BLUE - Ultramarine Blue (Natural as well as Artificial)
  • 8.03 BLUE - Cobalt Blues
  • 8.04 BLUE - Prussian Blue
  • 8.05 BLUE - Manganese Blue (1935)
  • 8.06 BLUE - Cyanine Blues
  • 8.07 BLUE - Blue Toners
  • 8.08 BLUE - Indigo
  • 8.09 BLUE - Maya Blue
  • 8.10 BLUE - Miscellaneous
  • 8.20 BLUE - Oriental Pigments

Green Pigments

  • 9.01 GREEN - Terre Verte
  • 9.02 GREEN - Malachite
  • 9.03 GREEN - Verdigris
  • 9.05 GREEN - Cobalt Green, 1780
  • 9.06 GREEN - Arsenic Greens- Emerald Green1814
  • 9.07 GREEN - Chrome Green, c 1820
  • 9.08 GREEN - Ultramarine Green
  • 9.09 GREEN - Viridian-Verte Emeraude c.1838
  • 9.10 GREEN - Chromium Oxide, c. 1862
  • 9.11 GREEN - Organic Greens
  • 9.12 GREEN - Miscellaneous
  • 9.20 GREEN - Oriental Green
This is an instance of the reds which reside under 6.20 RED - Oriental Pigments
The "staff only" expanse of the museum where the The Forbes Pigment Collection is located tin endure viewed - but non visited - is on the Museums' fourth Level .

The Harvard Art Museums, (redesigned past times architect Renzo Piano, are opened upwards 10am to 5pm, daily.

For to a greater extent than information - for the serious color nerds


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