Emily Noyes Vanderpoel (1842-1939) was an artist, collector, scholar, and historian working at the dawn of the 20th century. Her first and most prominent work, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, provides a comprehensive overview of the main ideas of color theory at the time, as well as her wildly original approaches to color analysis and interaction. Through a 21st century lens, she appears to stumble upon midcentury design and minimalism decades prior to those movements. 
 
- Sacred Bones Records
 
Lined with 116 remarkable color illustrations, this abstract and poetic book is being properly reprinted for the first time since 1903.
 
Emily was a remarkable and tenacious academic mind. Alongside a rigorously studied examination of the principals of color theory, her gridded Color Analysis works predict abstract art movements, while her quiet experiential Color Note watercolors denote a particular sensitivity to time and place. 
 
The book's 116 color plates are printed on a bright white coated paper stock to best display colors. Interiors are offset printed with close attention to color reproduction.