Values in Arthur Dove rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Cool tones set the register here - the blues and greens easily outweigh any warm accents. Mid-saturation across the board: the palette has colour character without chromatic excess. #3D71A6 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (4.2%). From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 76 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Arthur Dove's complete body of work advances.