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A living archive of how artists work with color across time. Each artist profile scans publicly available works to trace dominant colors, a chromatic fingerprint, and the arc of a palette across a lifetime.A living archive of how artists work with color across time, tracing palettes, fingerprints, and lifetime arcs from public works.

Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.Begin with an artist, carry a palette into the drawing system, or read the wider project.

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Arthur Beecher Carles

Carles made color the engine of composition. His abstractions press Fauvist intensity into dense, unstable fields where reds, violets, greens, and ochres collide rather than describe.

Palette: #B5A996 #634030 #A46B51 #83643A #C49939 #9C4134 #C76613 #7C3021

  • Abstraction, By: #C5B59C #462120 #C97707 #751027 #74674E #144224
  • Abstract Bouquet (1939): #B0A090 #5C7A76 #131212 #A9655E #C7876B #944647
  • Mercedes de Cordoba (1908): #494647 #C8B08C #A0A190 #3A312A #8C6945 #644833
  • Pheasant with Green Apple (1924): #2A292F #5A595E #939E9E #493239 #C2BDAB #C4AF7B
  • Portrait of Mrs Carles and Sara C. (1907): #2C2823 #A55F3B #483C33 #AD9F83 #804F3B #593D2D
  • Basket of Fruit and Flowers (1925): #838A7C #3D483A #8F8557 #B4987A #5C5425 #B75B10
  • Bouquet Abstraction (1930): #1D2123 #684753 #406882 #923A38 #75282E #0E5D3C
  • City at Night (1905): #67372E #624239 #5D5D66 #845F32 #39292B #EBB31E
  • Reclining Nude (1915-21): #1E1D22 #BAB3A1 #341C19 #4D221F #A89172 #612312
  • Still Life (1913): #CACCC8 #A66D61 #151C21 #47443E #723830 #B69891

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