The Tangled Garden

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada · 121.4 x 152.4 cm

Dusky Sienna
Dusky Twilight register - warm mid-darks, the palette of dusk and fading light.
Sienna Warm red-brown earth - named after the Sienese pigment, a fundamental artist earth color.
The Tangled Garden by J. E. H. MacDonald

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
32.2
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
20.0
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
14.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#5D4735 orange

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 66°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 32.2
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 20.0
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 32.2 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"The Tangled Garden" (1916) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation warm palette built around Amber and Cream. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #46374E pulls the eye.

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