Light floods Edward E. Simmons; the palette keeps values pale and airy across its range. Edward E. Simmons balances warm and cool with remarkable evenness, giving the composition its characteristic vibrancy. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The highest-chroma note - #E1DBAA - appears at just 13.6%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 65 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Edward E. Simmons's complete body of work advances.