History forgot this Color Wheel

Let's talk about a 1931 color wheel, published by Artist and educator elizabeth Hoppin Lewis. Evidently she took classes at Columbia in the 1920s, when Dr. Christine Ladd-Franklin was a science lecturer there. Ladd-Franklin's book on the evolution of color perception came out in 1929, and she died shortly thereafter. But Lewis saw a merit in Ladd-Franklin's ideas and wanted to present them in a useful form to artists. Records show that Lewis traveled the United States, lecturing on color theory and promoting her new chart in the 1930s, but after that, she disappears from history.
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Very interesting as always.