The value structure of George Luks is mid-key: quiet, controlled, and cohesive. George Luks tilts toward cool - blues and silver-greys carry the structural weight. The absence of saturated colour is itself an expressive choice: this is a palette of restraint and atmosphere. #9C4829 delivers the chromatic peak at only 5.7% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. A value spread of 57 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. Palette 2 sits within the larger chromatic argument that George Luks's complete body of work advances.