Friday, November 21, 2025

Dan Campion / camouflage, surrealism and satiric wit

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Dan Campion, The Mirror Test At a recent book reading, I was fortunate to meet an Iowa City-based writer named Dan Campion . We had an inter...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

whyah duck decoy, whyah no chicken hunting cartoon

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Above This is the cover of the October 20, 1909, issue of Puck , an American humor magazine that was founded in 1875 and continued until 19...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

a fascinating visit to the home of Aldo Leopold in Iowa

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Leopold home in Burlington IA For ten years I lived in Wisconsin. It was during that time that I became aware of the writings of the America...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Burlington IA Animal Camouflage Talk Coming Soon

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RELATED LINKS   Dazzle Camouflage: What is it and how did it work? /  Nature, Art, and Camouflage / Art, Women's Rights, and Camouflag...
Monday, September 22, 2025

highest-paid camouflage expert in England in WWII

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Eric Sloane , factory camouflage diagram PLENTY OF DIZZY PAINTING WHEN CAMOUFLAGERS WORK in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (Canada), December 23, ...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Gerald Handerson Thayer / an enigmatic life unsolved

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Gerald Handerson Thayer The American painter and ornithologist Gerald Handerson Thayer (see portrait photograph above) remains a mystery.  ...

striped camouflage applied as to conceal its direction

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Above British steamship Ascutney (center), showing camouflage, with Corle Castle on the right, 1918. ••• Brian Freeland, “Blue Days at Se...
Friday, September 12, 2025

ass o' nine tails / a camouflaged donkey embellished

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Above Illustration titled Camouflaged (signature unclear but possibly by Charles H. Wright)  for the front cover of Judge magazine (March...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Cubist Camouflage / she had heard of Jacob Epstein

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Jacob Epstein portrait by George Charles Beresford / 1916 Edith Nesbit , CUBIST CAMOUFLAGE , in the Melbourne Leader (Melbourne AU), July 27...
Monday, September 8, 2025

WWI anti-German propaganda cartoon puzzle pig

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Above As in all wars, there was no limit to propaganda during World War I. Allies referred to Germans as Huns, Boche—and portrayed them as ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Actor James Cagney trained as camoufleur in WWI

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James Cagney (1932), film lobby card Joann Rhetts, A LOOK AT A LEGEND , in The News and Courier (Charleston SC) April 5, 1986, p. 7— The y...

WWI camouflage in a vacant lot in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Fundraising on Charles River Above and below These are not photographs of the Cedar Rapids fundraising event described below in this post....

dieting is on the way out and camouflage is coming in

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Above The inverse of weight reduction by camouflage : A progression of photographs showing the stage make-up applied to an actor by Britis...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Glen Gano / US actor, cinematographer, camoufleur

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Actor and Hollywood cameraman Glen Gano (1892-1973), born in Kokomo IN , was the cinematographer for four Three Stooges productions: Booby...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Ezra Pound / on vorticism and WWI ship camouflage

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Above John Everett , SS Sardinian (Allan Line) discharging 6-in Shells made in Canada , c1918, as published in Canadian War Records Office,...

a rich beauty of color is given to camouflaged ships

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Charles Dickens (c1860s) C. Lewis Hind , ART AND I. New York: John Lane Company, 1921, p. 323— “… Paul and John Nash are originals, They w...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

camouflaged armored car devised in Massachusetts

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Capt Renwick with camouflaged armored car (1917) FORMER BAY STATE OFFICER OFFERS US ARMY NEW TYPE OF ARMORED CAR: Invention of Capt William ...
Monday, August 25, 2025

sudden death of a WWI cannon camoufleur in Ohio

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Above Interior view of Morgan Engineering plant (1915). Note camouflaged cannon in left foreground. ••• CANNON CAMOUFLAGER SUCCUMBS SUDDEN...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

stark bands of velvet breaking up colors throughout

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Unidentified WWI American ship camouflage PANTOMIME DRESSES in The Age (Melbourne, Australia), December 23, 1918— …of the dresses worn in ...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

a checkered harlequin with the camouflage of mockery

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Harlequin costume Henry C. Rowland , Cross-Bearings , in The Meriden Daily Journal (Meriden CT) July 13, 1921— A cold chill struck through ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Salt Lake City camouflage / World Wars One and Two

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USS Salt Lake City (1944) / WW2 Camouflage SALT LAKERS MAKE EFFORT TO ENROLL FOR "CAMOUFLAGE": Would Aid in Art of Concealing Mil...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

camoufleur Bérard made Chantecler farm yard scene

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costume from Chantecler Back in 2014, we blogged about the French stage designer Louis Bérard , perhaps best known as " le decorateur d...