Sunset and Sea Fog

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, US · 73.6 x 45.7 cm

Lustrous Sage
Lustrous Sheen without harshness - mid-to-high key, silky, with a pearl-like quality.
Sage Muted gray-green - the color of dried sage leaf, low-chroma and herbal.
Sunset and Sea Fog by Maurice Prendergast

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Color Profile

Brightness
light
0
100
52.4
dark
Saturation
vivid
0
100
26.2
muted
Warmth
warm
-30
0
+50
6.0
cool
Dominant Hue
#817E58 yellow

Distribution

Hue — where on the color wheel
avg hue 102°
Brightness — how dark vs how light
avg L 52.4
darklight
Saturation — gray vs vivid
avg C 26.2
grayvivid

Brightness Heartbeat

Average brightness scanned top → bottom of the painting.

avg L 52.4 L = 0 L = 100

Palette Analysis

"Sunset and Sea Fog" (1918) reads as a shadowed, mid-saturation warm palette built around Sage and Yellow. Color weight is distributed evenly across the top three swatches. A low-prevalence accent at #665F64 pulls the eye.

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