James
David Smillie
The Visionary Landscapes of James David Smillie In the golden age of American landscape painting, few names resonate with the same sense of structural precision and atmospheric wonder as James David Smillie. A pivotal figure within the illustrious Hudson River School, Smillie possessed a rare …
A portrait built from James David Smillie's own colours
Every 5 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.