The Gross Clinic Color Palette — Thomas Eakins (1875)

- black
- dark umber
- black
- dark umber
- dark umber
- dark umber
About this palette
The Gross Clinic is a painting by Thomas Eakins, dated 1875. It comes from North American art of the second half of the 19th century.
Its six colors run from black (#121110) up to dark umber (#423C36). It is a close-valued, low-contrast palette with muted tones, mostly warm (lightness 5 to 26 in CIE Lab).
How it plays in the puzzle
Palette 2048 used this painting for the daily puzzle of June 20, 2026. The tiles show no numbers: the smallest tile is black, and each merge steps along the palette. The six colors land exactly on the 2, 8, 32, 64, 256 and 2048 tiles, with blended shades in between, so the 2048 tile is dark umber.
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16
- 32
- 64
- 128
- 256
- 512
- 1024
- 2048