Betty
Lane
A Life Painted in Light and Shadow Betty Lane, born Elizabeth Thoburn Lane in Washington D.C. in 1907, was an American artist whose evocative watercolors and oils quietly charted a course through the shifting currents of modernist art. Her life, spanning nearly a century, was …
A portrait built from Betty Lane's own colours
Every 4 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.
