Gaines
Ruger Donoho
Gaines Ruger Donoho: Life & Art Early Life and Education Born: December 21, 1857, in Church Hill, Mississippi. Donoho’s father, Robert Donoho, was a planter from Virginia, and his mother, Julia Sophia Ruger, hailed from New England. His childhood on a Mississippi plantation was disrupted …
A portrait built from Gaines Ruger Donoho'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.
