Ronald
Brooks Kitaj
A Life Forged in Displacement and Vision Ronald Brooks Kitaj, born in 1932 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was an artist whose journey mirrored the tumultuous currents of the twentieth century. His early life was marked by a sense of rootlessness; his Hungarian immigrant father departed …
A portrait built from Ronald Brooks Kitaj's own colours
Every 42 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.
