Friday, April 4, 2025

the camouflage of the backs of low-cut evening gowns

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Above This news photograph was published in the Evening Journal (Wilmington DE), May 8, 1920, p. 1, shortly after the end of World War I, ...

the squad of daubers who applied camouflage patterns

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Above I have no good explanation for this. It is a group photograph that appeared in the Evening Public Ledger-Philadelphia on August 21, ...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

celebrated Hollywood art director was US camoufleur

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To my surprise, I have known about Richard Day for years. I simply hadn’t realized that a camoufleur named Richard Day was the same person ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

WWI Armenian-American camoufleurs in US Army

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WWI American poster Back in 2013, I first learned about an Armenian-born American artist named Nishan G. Toor (born Nishan G. Tooroonjian),...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Luther E. DeJoiner / WWI American ship camoufleur

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Luther E. DeJoiner The number and variety of artists, designers, illustrators, stage designers, and architects who served as camouflage expe...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

construction of a WWI dummy tank by british in france

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Above Dummy tank being constructed in France by British forces, 1916. ••• SWANSEA'S TANK in The Cambria Daily Leader (Wales), October...

tacoma builds phony tank for WWI liberty loan parade

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Above WWI American dummy tank in Liberty Loan parade, 1918 ••• CITY TANK IN LOAN PARADE in Tacoma Times (Tacoma WA) April 06, 1918, p. 8—...

a primer for the wee ones on the value of camouflage

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Sarah L. Raymo, Camouflaged Teddy Bear Patent MILTON HAVEN CUB NOTES in Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph (Haverfordwest, Pembrok...

a dazzling pair of scarecrows—or tailors' dummies

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Cover / Dazzle News Online   CAMOUFLAGED SKIRTS in Thames Star (New Zealand), Vol 52 No 13729, June 22, 1918, p. 4— The latest concerning ...
Friday, February 21, 2025

instead of the frontlne they put me on the subway line

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Above Paris-based artist Jean Kisling in his studio . ••• PARIS PUTS ARTISTS IN ARMY TO CAMOUFLAGE TRUCKS, TANKS, CANNON Cubists, Surreali...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Clara Lathrop Strong / New England Camouflage Artist

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Above Portrait drawing of British author Aldous Huxley   by Eric Pape , teacher of Clara Lathrop Strong , as published in The Sphere , Oct...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

John M. Goodwin / WWI railway artillery camoufleur

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Here’s a puzzle: I haven’t been able to ascertain if the John Goodwin who authored a book in 2016 on Railway Guns (see cover above) is the...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

camouflaged ham sandwich tastes as good as chicken

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Above Dazzle-camouflaged USS Famlhaut , side views (1944). ••• A young Ohio-born artist named Charles William Becker, Jr (1891-1978) served...

we paint fake cows and nail them on wooden frames

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Above The founder of Futurism , Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (1876-1944), a fascist if ever there was one. As i...
Monday, February 17, 2025

H. Ledyard Towle / artist, camouflage instructor / hero

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The Army officer encircled in yellow above is Captain H. Ledyard Towle . He is conducting an outdoor instructional session during World War ...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

women's contributions to wartime camouflage / WWI

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It is difficult to know to what extent American women contributed directly to the design of wartime camouflage. A case in point is the artis...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

camouflage / gestalt / design / taoism / bauhaus

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Saturday, February 8, 2025

John Downes Whiting / American ship camoufleur

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For years I’ve been trying to find out about an American artist, author and book illustrator named John Downes Whiting (1884-1977). I’ve be...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Otto von Frisch / Nature, Animal Camouflage & Design

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Above Cover of Otto von Frisch , Animal Camouflage . London: Collins, 1973. See also Nature, Art and Camouflage .
Sunday, December 29, 2024

who cut off your tie at the Art Academy of Cincinnati?

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Batchelor and Behrens / Art Academy of Cincinnati In the late 1980s, I was living in Cincinnati OH, where I was head of the graphic design p...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

from art to camouflage to the demolition of his home

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Walter K. Pleuthner at age 82 Walter Pleuthner's WWI ship camouflage scheme When Walter Karl Pleuthner registered for the draft in White...