Charles
Melville Dewey
early life and artistic formation charles melville dewey, an american tonalist painter, was born in 1849 in lowville, new york. his early life was marked by a hip disease that confined him to his bed from his twelfth to seventeenth year. this period of convalescence …
A portrait built from Charles Melville Dewey's own colours
Every 11 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
