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Carleton
Emmons Watkins

1829 — 1916 · 19th Century

A Visionary of the American West Carleton Emmons Watkins was not a painter, but a master photographer whose lens captured the raw, untamed majesty of the nineteenth-century American West. Born in Oneonta, New York, his journey to the Pacific was driven by the same spirit …

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The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Carleton Emmons Watkins's own colours

Every 36 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

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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.

Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers

The Source Works

Where the colour came from

Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.

Carleton
Emmons Watkins

A portrait built from Carleton Emmons Watkins's own colours

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

The signature, in numbers

Where the colour came from

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CarletonEmmons Watkins

A portrait built from Carleton Emmons Watkins's own colours

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

The signature, in numbers

Where the colour came from

Carleton
Emmons Watkins