The Three Marys

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.
The Three Marys by Henry Ossawa Tanner

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
30.0
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
23.8
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
0.6
cool
Dominant Hue
#40455E blue

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 299°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 30.0
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 23.8
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 30.0 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Three Marys" (1910) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation cool palette built around Blue and Slate. The body of the palette stays restrained while smaller hits of color do the work. A low-prevalence accent at #DDA55B pulls the eye.

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