Just think about how many people now know something about Edward Forbes and his pigment collection

Recently, Hyperallergic published “A Collection of 3,000 Pigments Made from Cow Urine, Shells, Insects, and More”, a lengthy post by Claire Voon about the newly published An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour (Atelier Éditions) and the Forbes Pigment Collection housed in Harvard University’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, several hundred of whose specimens are featured in the book. Although the collection has been on public display since 2014, Edward Waldo Forbes and the Forbes Pigment Collection are not household names. As Hyperallergic.com receives almost 1 million unique visitors each month, just think about how many people now know something about Forbes and his collection.