smithsonianlibraries: Find a Rainbow Day may or may not be an official thing, but we will take any e
smithsonianlibraries: Find a Rainbow Day may or may not be an official thing, but we will take any excuse to post rainbows from our collection. From the top: The Beauty of the Heavens (1842) by Charles Blunt Thirty Plates of Natural Phenomena (1846) Matabe land and the Victoria Falls (1881) by Frank Oates Spectrum Analysis (1885) by Henry Roscoe Atlas of the Munsell color system (1915) by A.H. Munsell A few years ago, we held a small exhibit on color, Color in a New Light. With the addition of a co-curator, an expanded reworking of the exhibit will be on display at the @cooperhewitt as Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color, opening in May 2018. -- source link