diff --git a/source/MaterialXView/RenderPipelineMetal.mm b/source/MaterialXView/RenderPipelineMetal.mm
index 07766fe5eb..e77edf29c0 100644
--- a/source/MaterialXView/RenderPipelineMetal.mm
+++ b/source/MaterialXView/RenderPipelineMetal.mm
@@ -467,10 +467,19 @@
     {
         [renderpassDesc.colorAttachments[0] setTexture:MTL(currentFramebuffer())->getColorTexture()];
     }
+    // The Metal framebuffer stores linear color values (MTLPixelFormatRGBA16Float).
+    // macOS applies gamma correction when displaying linear float values, so the sRGB
+    // background color must be converted to linear before being set as the clear color.
+    // On OpenGL (Windows), the background is stored directly in a non-linear framebuffer
+    // and no conversion is needed.
+    mx::Color3 bgLinear = mx::Color3(_viewer->m_background[0],
+                                     _viewer->m_background[1],
+                                     _viewer->m_background[2]).srgbToLinear();
+
     [renderpassDesc.colorAttachments[0] setClearColor:MTLClearColorMake(
-                                        _viewer->m_background[0],
-                                        _viewer->m_background[1],
-                                        _viewer->m_background[2],
+                                        bgLinear[0],
+                                        bgLinear[1],
+                                        bgLinear[2],
                                         _viewer->m_background[3])];
     [renderpassDesc.colorAttachments[0] setLoadAction:MTLLoadActionClear];
     [renderpassDesc.colorAttachments[0] setStoreAction:MTLStoreActionStore];