Walter Gay is strongly light-biased - shadow is suggested rather than declared. Walter Gay 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. #939567 is not a small accent - at 19.5% it qualifies as a major presence and gives the palette its chromatic identity. 49 units of value spread create a palette that is varied but unified - contrast in the service of harmony. High luminosity and cool temperature suggest the plein-air condition: unfiltered daylight and open sky. This is palette 1 of Walter Gay's sequence - a single chapter in a chromatic story told across many works.