Blues set against blues — a plate made to show how closely related colours sit together. It is Plate 11 of James Ward's Colour Harmony and Contrast (1912), a book "for the use of art students, designers, and decorators", where it is titled Harmony of Analogy in Broken Blues.
The book carried sixteen plates in colour. This is one of them: a teaching plate rather than a picture of anything, made so a student could see the idea in front of them. Printed at wall size, the exercise becomes something to stand in front of.
Ward was born in Belfast in 1851 and was headmaster of the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art from 1907 to 1918. In those same years he made the twelve frescoes in the rotunda of Dublin City Hall, begun in 1914 and completed in 1918.
Open edition, made to order.
Sizes & Format
30 × 45 cm / 12 × 18″
60 × 90 cm / 24 × 36″
Available framed in black, white, wood
Print & Frame Details
Archival matte paper, 250gsm (110lb), acid-free and FSC-certified — off-white, uncoated. Framed prints: solid oak or ash wood frame, 20mm thick, with shatterproof protective glazing. Ready to hang, hanging kit included. Unframed prints up to A4 ship flat; larger sizes ship rolled in a protective tube.
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