Colour Analysis Charts by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1902) _ the Public Domain Review

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Colour Analysis Charts by Emily Noyes

Vanderpoel (1902)

ooking at times like some kind of strange fusion of De Stijl abstraction and Tetris, these wonderful

colour charts are taken from Color problems: A practical manual for the lay student of color, a book

y the American artist Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939). Following her ruminations on colour

heory, she presents 117 coloured plates including colour analysis of various objects, such as

ssyrian tiles, Persian rugs, an Egyptian mummy case, and even a teacup and saucer. Vanderpoel

ho primarily worked with watercolours and oils, and held the position of vice president of the New

York Watercolor Club doesnt really elaborate on the process by which the blocks of colour come

o be arranged in the specific arrangements we find. What is clear, as John Ptak notes(http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/12/what-color-is-an-unintentional-

odernist-masterpiece-of-book-illustration.html), is that Vanderpoel sought not so much to analyze

he components of color itself, but rather to quantify the overall interpretative effect of color on the

imagination.

or more images of how people have organised colour, see our post Colour Wheels, Charts, and

ables Through History (http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/colour-wheels-charts-and-tables-

hrough-history/).

Housed at: Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/colorproblemspra00vand) | From: Smithsonian Libraries

(https://archive.org/details/smithsonian_books)

Found via: JF Ptak Science Books Blog (http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/12/what-color-is-an-unintentional-

modernist-masterpiece-of-book-illustration.html)

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This particular copy of the book, digitised by Smithsonian Libraries, has this oddquirk of one of the plates being replaced by a hand-painted version.


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In addition to the analysis charts above Vanderpoel also includes the following colour

notes.


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