What Do We Know About Colors?

Dec 17, 2014
Issue 2123

Seasons Greetings

I wish everyone a Wonderful Christmas / Holiday Season!!!!

Kind regards from brisk sunny Orlando, Florida,

David P. Donaldson, MFA

Check Your TV Screen

And lest we forget the color you see on your computer screen and the one on mine may well be different. I have two computers, identical, here. Mine and Marshall’s. The goblet color pictured looks way different on his computer than it does on mine. (And we won’t get into a discussion on the difference in colors prior to and after my cataract surgery. I preferred celeste blue before… Happy Hunting!

Carol Ketchum, Genoa, NY

A Meeting of the Masters

One day many years ago, during the annual Carder Steuben Club’s Symposium at the Rockwell Museum—the Rockwell Collection of Steuben glass was there then— I set up a table, found as many different colors of green transparent Steuben glass as I could, put them all on the table,and put together a committee to talk about the names of the different greens. The committee was made up of, Mr. Robert Rockwell, his son Bobby Rockwell, and myself. We studied the examples and found we could not agree on anything.

So, as far as I am concerned, I know only one thing; that is that our best chance to figure out the greens is the scientific work that Dr. Merkel is presently doing. At the present time a bit of patience will serve us best.

Respectively

Tom Dimitroff, Corning, NY

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