Joseph
Mellor Hanson
Joseph Mellor Hanson: A Life in Modernist Abstraction Early Life and Education Joseph Mellor Hanson (1900-1963) was a British-born modernist painter who dedicated his artistic career to exploring figure painting through an increasingly abstract lens. He was born on the family farm in the West …
A portrait built from Joseph Mellor Hanson'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.
