Jessie
Dunahoo
Jessie Dunahoo: A Shelter of Resilience Born in Bethel, Kentucky, in 1932, Jessie Dunahoo’s life was profoundly shaped by early adversity – a deafness from birth and subsequent loss of vision as a young man. These challenges, rather than defining limitations, became the bedrock upon …
A portrait built from Jessie Dunahoo'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.
