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Smithsonian Color Journey

The Color Blue

The color of the sky and the sea, blue is often associated with serenity, inspiration, loyalty, and a sadness known as the blues. Explore the color blue in the National Museum of Asian Art collections and in collections from across the Smithsonian.

Discover ways of understanding the science of color with Smithsonian Libraries and Archives and the story behind the colors we create with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.


Hope Diamond

Blue Blue with Rose

The New Blue Dress

Vase

Cobalt Blue

Compacted Solarized Blue with Green

Alhambra Vase

Woman's Dress, 1876

Blue Vato with Glasses

Womb

Brown and Blue

Small Porcelain Bowl with Prussian Blue Glaze

Song of Sorrow

light blue dress with sequenced beads at top

Cobalt Blue Dress

Side Chair

Pianura (Landscape with Blue Sky)

iPod Nano

Vase

Big Blue

Baluster-shaped vase

Turquoise blue dress with nude bodice and blue details designed by Peter Davy

Vase with linear design

Woman in Blue Dress in Red Chair

Model 4083A Clock

Grace Coolidge's Blue Sequined "Flapper" Dress

Blue Poison Frog

Blue Asteroid

Eclipse in Blue

Bowl with head of the goddess Hathor

Porcelain bowl with thick walls

Blue Sky

Blue Plate Special

Footed bowl

Deep Blue


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