Ship in a Storm

Brooding Basalt
Brooding Low-key and emotionally weighted - dark values with a sense of psychological depth.
Basalt Dark blue-gray - the color of volcanic rock, cool and dense.
Ship in a Storm by Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
36.1
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
9.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
1.5
cool
Dominant Hue
#565359 gray

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 318°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 36.1
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 9.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 36.1 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Ship in a Storm" (1879) reads as a shadowed, muted-saturation cool palette built around Slate and Beige. One color carries 31% of the picture plane, anchoring the composition. A low-prevalence accent at #D58E3F pulls the eye.

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