Monday, June 23, 2025

face camouflage / sidestep the flu by growing a beard

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Above Rex Whistler , comic portrait (repeated five times) of a bearded man whose identity changes when positioned upsidedown (c1930). ••• ...

circumvent the heat by disguising oneself as a julep

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Above Roy R. Behrens, from a series of digital montages, produced during the COVID pandemic. Copyright © the artist. Online here . ••• O. Ha...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

women are expert camoufleurs / it is their middle name

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Cartoon, Fay King 1918 CAMOUFLAGE IS MIDDLE NAME OF WOMAN: EXPERIENCED IN KEEPING WILLIE ‘HALF-FARE’: IF SHE CAN PAINT RED CRAWFISH ON PLATT...

WWI swimsuit camouflage / latest fashion clothing fad

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Saturday, June 21, 2025

broken figures / the ruling style at present was dazzle

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Cover of Jack London's novel (1902) As we are once again learning at this point in American life, even if something is blatantly false, ...
Friday, June 20, 2025

failed camouflage / wife's hat must not be so employed

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Above This cartoon was published in the Boston Sunday Post on September 23, 1932. The title reads ABRAHAMSON'S CAMOUFLAGE FAILETH wit...
Friday, June 6, 2025

the perils of counterfeiting / a George H. Blair cartoon

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Above This is a camouflage-related cartoon from 1918. It was drawn by George H. Blair , who was a Boston-area newspaper artist and cartooni...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Noel Martin, Ralston Crawford as WWII Camoufleurs

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Noel Martin exhibition poster Canadian-born American artist Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) is usually said to have been a Precisionist , with...
Monday, June 2, 2025

William Twigg Smith / New Zealand-born Camoufleur

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In earlier blog posts we’ve talked about a New Zealand-born artist, named William Twigg-Smith (1882-1950) who was one of the first members ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

aha / painting cheese on the moon in a lunar eclipse

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Above US Government photograph of American artist (and wartime camoufleur) Charles Bittinger painting an eclipse of the moon on site, as i...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

airplane plants camouflaged by set designers in WWII

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Lockheed plant (before) Lockheed plant (after) Above and below Various US government views of a WWII aircraft factory , concealed from aer...
Saturday, May 3, 2025

Wol I thought you was part of the camouflage scheme

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Above Charles Grave , cartoon from Punch , January 23, 1918: Docker (to Jack, who has been silently regarding him). “Wot yer starin’ at, No...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Edwin Howland Blashfield / was he a ship camoufleur

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Edwin Howland Blashfield During his life time, American artist Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936) was typically referred to as “the dean o...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

WPA artists / engineers also worked on camouflage

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Recently, while preparing a talk about the Depression-era WPA (Works Progress Administration), I was surprised to find how many American ca...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

camouflage / war work training for art school students

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Ad, The Boston Post , June 8, 1941 WAR WORK FEATURE FOR ART STUDENTS in Trenton Evening Times (Trenton NJ), September 18, 1918— All class...
Monday, April 21, 2025

stained glass artist / WWI camoufleur / bird enthusiast

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Len R. Howard, Grace Church window Surely, there can’t be many people—outside of those who specialize in stained glass window design— who ha...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

architects / they have an eye for the looks of things

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Above Photograph of Homer Saint-Gaudens , by De Witt Clinton Ward. ••• HOLLYWOOD PROP MEN ABLE AT WAR CAMOUFLAGE in The Boston Globe , Jan...