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Title: A Color Notation
A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue,
Value and Chroma

Author: Albert H. Munsell

Release Date: July 14, 2008 [EBook #26054]

Language: English

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[Illustration: A BALANCED COLOR SPHERE
PASTEL SKETCH]

A COLOR NOTATION

_By_

A. H. MUNSELL

A MEASURED COLOR SYSTEM, BASED ON THE THREE QUALITIES

_Hue, Value, and Chroma_

with

Illustrative Models, Charts, and
a Course of Study Arranged for Teachers

_2nd Edition
Revised &
Enlarged_

GEO. H. ELLIS CO.
BOSTON
1907

COPYRIGHT, 1905
by
A. H. MUNSELL

_All rights reserved_

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

At various times during the past ten years, the gist of these pages has
been given in the form of lectures to students of the Normal Art School,
the Art Teachers' Association, and the Twentieth Century Club. In
October of last year it was presented before the Society of Arts of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the suggestion of Professor
Charles R. Cross.

Grateful acknowledgment is due to many whose helpful criticism has aided
in its development, notably Mr. Benjamin Ives Gilman, Secretary of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Professor Harry E. Clifford, of the Institute, and
Mr. Myron T. Pritchard, master of the Everett School, Boston.

A. H. M.