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:
“There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Rain falls into the open eyes of the dead
Again again with its pointless sound
When the moon finds them they are the color of everything”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)