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The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Bill
Traylor

1854 — 1949 · 19th Century

Bill Traylor: The Voice of Alabama Folklore William “Bill” Traylor (April 1, c. 1853 – October 23, 1949) remains an enigma to art historians and critics alike—a self-taught African American artist whose extraordinary drawings emerged from the obscurity of rural Alabama during the Great Depression. …

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Bill Traylor
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Bill Traylor's own colours

Every 26 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.

← Cool · Shadow Warm · Earth Gold · Light →

Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
The Chromatic Knot

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.

0° Red 90° Yellow 180° Cyan 270° Blue saturation →
Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers