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Everett L. Warner with ship model (c1918). Courtesy NARA.
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More than two years ago, in a blog post about World War I American artist
Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940), we reported on
his camouflage plan for the USS Proteus, a cargo ship for carrying coal. We included two photographs at the time, one showing the painted wooden ship model (reproduced below), as prepared by Waugh, the other a view of the actual ship after the scheme had been applied.
More recently, we have located another photograph of Waugh's model (above). It shows
Everett Longley Warner (Waugh's immediate supervisor) standing beside an observation theatre, used for testing ship camouflage plans. The ship model has been placed on a circular turntable that can be angled at any degree. Also evident is a painted backdrop on a roll of canvas, which allows the background to be changed, to simulate various weather effects.
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| Close-up view of same ship model |
