Department
Of State. Office Of The Geographer. (10/7/1941 - 1/15/1944)
A Cartographic Echo of Policy: The Department of State’s Office of the Geographer (1941-1944) The Department of State's Office of the Geographer, active from October 7, 1941, to January 15, 1944, represents a fascinating and somewhat unusual entity in the landscape of American art. It …
A portrait built from Department Of State. Office Of The Geographer. (10/7/1941 - 1/15/1944)'s own colours
Every 1 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.