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The Artist's Palette

The Artist's Palette

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What can the palette an artist used or depicted tell us about their artistic process, preferences, and finished works? From traditional wooden boards to paint pots, ceramic plates, and studio walls, these deceptively simple yet potent tools provide vital evidence. The Artist’s Palette presents fifty unique palettes alongside paintings by the celebrated artists who used them, gathering expert analysis of color, brushstroke, and technique to offer new histories of these artists and their work.

Alexandra Loske pairs each artist’s color palette with one or more of their paintings, revealing how the artist used paints and pigments. While Georges Seurat meticulously arranged the paints on his palette in prismatic order, a pointillist technique reflected on his canvases, Kerry James Marshall uses blots of zinc white and smears of pale pink on the surfaces of symbolically oversized white palettes held by the Black artists in his portraits, raising provocative questions about the role of color in Black history and Western art. Through these and other compelling accounts, Loske shows how, behind every great painting, there is a palette that tells its story.

Featuring a wealth of original photographs of palettes, paints, and pigments of all kinds, 
The Artist’s Palette takes readers into the studios of artists from Artemisia Gentileschi, Rembrandt, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and John Singer Sargent to Egon Schiele, Georgia O’Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler, Lucian Freud, and Keith Haring, revealing how the materials and tools they used hide secrets and are often reflections of the life and times of the artist who once held, prepared, and used them.

SHIPPING & RETURNS

Our studio is closed on Mondays. Any orders placed will ship out within 3-5 business days. Please email us with any question or concerns. 

Refunds and exchanges will be allowed on a case by case basis within 14 days of delivery. Of course, if your order is damaged or incorrect we would love the opportunity to make it correct! Do contact us before sending a package back to the studio. Please email pim@mrboddington.com. 

FAQs

What is the order turn-around time and do you expedite shipping?

Orders ship out within 3-5 days. Please note that the studio is closed on Mondays. If you need something expedited, contact pim@mrboddington.com.

Do you offer wholesale?

Yes, Mr. Boddington sells his paper goods in stores around the world. To apply to sell Mr. Boddington's goods, please contact orders@mrboddington.com.

Is Mr. Boddington real?

Yes. No. Well kinda. Mr. Boddington was the owner Rebecca Ruebensaal's childhood imaginary friend. Fast-forward several decades, globetrotter Mr. B continues to be the fictitious alter-ego who guides the company.

Should I ditch my phone into the sea?

Of course you should. Afterwards, pen a note to somebody you adore or throw a party filled with cake and cocktails. Here is Mr. B's playlist for the latter.

Do you have a physical store?

Yes and it is filled with greeting cards, pens, pencils, notebooks, books, goods for your desk, and stationery sourced from around the world. Please pop in to our flagship shop: 67 35th Street, Suite B229. Our hours are Thursday (11 am - 6 pm), Friday (11 am - 6 pm), Saturday (12 pm - 6 pm) and Sunday (12 pm - 6 pm).