Values in George Clausen rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Temperature is balanced: the palette pits warm earth against cool sky without declaring a winner. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The most saturated colour, #C4B085, is reserved to 7.5% of the surface, where it acts as a focal punctuation. At 60 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. These proportions encode George Clausen's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.