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Color Wheel
This is a Color wheel. It was created by Hilaire Hiler. It is dated 1936–37 and we acquired it in 1960. Its medium is oil paint on composition board. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
While living in Paris before World War II, writer, philosopher, jazz musician, WPA artist, and color theorist Hilaire Hiler associated with avant-garde artists like Marcel Duchamp, Constantin Brancusi and Man Ray. Inspired by Ostwald’s color system, he worked to design a color system for painters. His wheel includes 30 hues, plus tints, tones, and shades (created by adding white, gray, and black). A rotating disk in the center identifies complementary colors and certain harmonies.
This object was
donated by
Hilaire Hiler.
It is credited Gift of Hilaire Hiler.
- Textile, Unisol
- cotton.
- Gift of Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc..
- 1960-170-2
- Poster, Communication and Print
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Shin Matsunaga.
- 1992-144-17
- Sidewall, Ascending Suns
- hand-folded and dyed japanese paper.
- Gift of Barbara White.
- 2000-64-41
Our curators have highlighted 7 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Book, Die Farbenfibel (The Color Primer)
- letterpress with collage on paper.
- Gift of Walter C. Granville, Smithsonian Libraries, ND1493 .O85 1928.
- 92.2016.42
- 1008, Smell Wheels
- Senses.1008
- Book, Spectrum Analysis
- lithograph on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, QC451 .R793.
- 92.2016.49
Its dimensions are
117.8 x 84.6 cm (46 3/8 x 33 5/16 in. )
Cite this object as
Color Wheel; Hilaire Hiler (1898 – 1966); oil paint on composition board; 117.8 x 84.6 cm (46 3/8 x 33 5/16 in. ); Gift of Hilaire Hiler; 1960-244-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.
