Local Color

Local color may refer to:

  • Local Color (book), a 1950 note and sketch study by Truman Capote
  • Local Color (film), a 2006 film starring Trevor Morgan
  • Local color (literature) or regionalism, a genre of fiction or poetry
  • Local color (visual art), the natural color of an object
  • Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia, a book by Bill Bachman and Tim Winton
  • Local Color, European travel essays by Truman Capote published in 1950
  • Local Color, a short-story collection by John Andrew Rice
  • Local Color, an art exhibition by Tullio DeSantis

Famous quotes containing the words local and/or color:

    “Hey, you dress up our town very nicely. You don’t look out the Chamber of Commerce is going to list you in their publicity with the local attractions.”
    —Robert M. Fresco, and Jack Arnold. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar)

    “To face the garment of rebellion
    With some fine color that may please the eye
    Of fickle changelings and poor discontents.
    Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
    Of hurly-burly innovation.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)