Re: Dan Becker and Moore Square Historic District, "earth tone" colors; a
definition drawn from an art text:

I looked through a couple of standard school texts (Art Today, Histor of
Art, Reinhold...etc.) and found nothing specific. However, A VISUAL
DICTIONARY OF ART, New York Graphic Society Ltd., Greenwich Connecticut,
First Published in 1974 in Great Britain by Wiliam Heinemann Ltd., Library
of Congress #73-76181 states on page 224:

"EARTH COLOURS

Pigments occurring naturally in earths and clays, usually oxides of common
metals, iron, copper.  These colours include yellow and red ochres, umbers
and terre verte."

Your question is regarding "earth tone" colors.  Since a tone is a subset
of the broader term, "color", it follows that an earth tone is a specific
tone or shade of a color composed of "pigments occurring naturally in
eaarths and clays..."

Can one argue that cadmium or cobalt is an earth color, producing intense
reds, oranges, yellows and blues?  Not necessarily by the dictionary
definition.  But... "When I use a word, " Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a
scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor
less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many
different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that's all."

Therefore, get it into the definitions before the arguing begins.

--JIm