frank
applegate
The Luminous Legacy of Frank Applegate In the golden, sun-drenched history of the American Southwest, few figures capture the ephemeral beauty of the New Mexico landscape as poignantly as Frank Applegate. A true pioneer of Southwestern watercolor, Applegate possessed a rare ability to translate the …
A portrait built from frank applegate's own colours
Every 16 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.