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Stanley Reed: A Liverpool Portraitist of Subtle Grace Stanley Reed (1908-1978) wasn’t a name that immediately leaps to mind when discussing the titans of 20th-century British art. Yet, within the quieter corners of national collections – the National Portrait Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery, …
A portrait built from stanley reed's own colours
Every 27 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.
