Philip
Guston
Philip Guston: A Life in Art Born: Montreal, Canada (June 27, 1913) Died: June 7, 1980 Philip Guston was a renowned Canadian-American painter and printmaker whose career spanned over four decades. His artistic journey is marked by significant shifts in style and subject matter, blending …
A portrait built from Philip Guston'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.