Featured on PDR in the essay Tribal Life in Old Lyme: Canada’s Colorblind Chronicler and his Connecticut Exile

Abigail Walthausen explores the life and work of Arthur Heming, the Canadian painter who — having been diagnosed with colourblindness as a child — worked for most of his life in a distinctive palette of black, yellow, and white.

Other works by the artist in the archive…

"The snare havin' caught her about the head, had not strangled her to death, but had pulled her head aloft an' held it there for many days."

Artist

Date

1925

From

The Living Forest


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

Digital Rights

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