The Origins of Color-new web exhibit

The Origins of Color exhibit explores the historical and scientific development of pigments and dyes and their production and uses in both fine art as well as craft manufacture. The exhibit features books from our collections together with pigments and dyes, and various samples of textiles and other end products of color processes: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/originsof-color/

This web exhibit is an archive of a physical exhibit displayed at the John Crerar Library in 2007.