Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Horse Carcass Camouflage

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Pictured above are US Government photographs showing the same subject from two camera angles. The top photo...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Camouflage as Hide and Seek

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According to what I’ve been able to find, Reginald John Farrer (1880-1921) was an accomplished British gardener, writer and botanist, who w...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Jean Cocteau on Camouflage

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During World War I, the shoulder patch insignia of the French Army's camouflage corps was a chameleon. Related to that, this is a diary ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Puzzle Picture

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Above An embedded figure drawing or puzzle picture from a turn-of-the-century issue of The Strand Magazine (c1907). Finding the footman i...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Embedded Figure Camouflage

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Drawings for US Patent No. 2,670,961, by Charles E. Winters (1954) Shown here are the drawings for a patented game-like invention called...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Camouflage Artist | Clinton Adams

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The following are excerpts from an Oral History Interview with American artist and art historian Clinton Adams , who served as a camouflage ...

Camouflage Artist | Eric Sloane

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Cover of Eric Sloane, Camouflage Simplified (New York: Devin Adair, 1942). Eric Sloane (1905-1985) was a widely-known American artist...

Camouflage Artist | Perkins Harnly

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The following is an excerpt from an Oral History Interview of American artist Perkins Harnly (1901-1986), who served as a Depression-era Wo...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

Ernie Kovacs and Camouflage

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Ernie Kovacs' invisible girl friend American comedian Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962) was widely known in the late 1950s...

Camouflage Styles Among Nations

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American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein often made interesting statements about art and camouflage , most of which can be retrieved from ...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Vonnegut and Camouflage

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From the opening page of Kurt Vonnegut , Bluebeard: The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988 ). New York: Dell, 1987— …I was depri...

William Andrew Mackay and Optical Camouflage

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Early in World War I, American muralist William Andrew Mackay used a spinning, colored Maxwell disk (Invented by James Clark Maxwell) to pr...

Camouflaged Brands and Old Tattoos

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In the American West, it was common among livestock thieves to change the brands on stolen cattle by embedding (or camouflaging) the old bra...

Jackson Pollock's Camouflage

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In his recent book, called Tom and Jack , about the relationship between American artists Thomas Hart Benton (who was assigned to naval cam...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Artist Stephen Hobbs

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Above In recent days we've been fortunate to find online examples of the artwork of Stephen Hobbs , a South African artist from Johann...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Arthur Q. Davis | Architect & Camoufleur

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Above The cover of the autobiography of New Orleans architect Arthur Q. Davis , It Happened by Design: The Life and Work ...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Modernism and Ship Camouflage

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Above These three watercolor paintings (with no credit to the artist, and the signature at bottom right is unreadabl...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Dazzle Ship Cover Design

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Above This World War II-era British government publication features a powerful abstracted image of a dazzle-camoufla...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Okapi Stripes and Hopkins' Poem

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Above The stripes of an okapi from E. Ray Lankester, Monograph of the Okapi (London: British Museum, 1910). Illustra...
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Annie Dillard and Dali

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Above An embedded figure drawing from a 1907 issue of The Strand Magazine . Compare that with this observation by Ge...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

Hirschfeld's Camouflaged Ninas

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Above Photograph by Carl Van Vechten (1955) of American caricaturist Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003), widely known for h...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Futurist Shipping

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Above World War I-era photograph of a dazzle-painted ship. Public domain photo. The name of the ship is uncertain, but, ba...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Camouflage in Lolita

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Believe it or not, there are references to two World War I camouflage artists in Vladimir Nabokov 's famous novel...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

Praise for Camoupedia Book

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From a review by Georgina Lewis of Roy R. Behrens, CAMOUPEDIA: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage , as published o...

Camouflaged Horse

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Above A cartoon spoof of World War I camouflage from Life magazine (1918). The caption reads: "The Camouflaged Steed:...
Sunday, April 11, 2010

Canadian War Museum

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purchase online We were recently in Ottawa to speak at the Canadian War Museum, in connection with the current exhibitio...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Elephants Wear Taupe

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Above Red-eyed Tree Frog ( Agalychnis callidryas ), photographed by Carey James Balboa near Playa Jaco, Costa Rica (200...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Hollywood Camouflage Artists

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This pair of photographs dates from World War I, when they were most likely distributed by the US Government to newspapers and m...

Camouflage Joke | Camelflag

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And now for a rather lame camouflage joke from World War I, as published in Cartoons Magazine , vol 13 (1918), p. 716— Son Will Have to Ge...

Colors Used in Dazzle Camouflage

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There are full-color paintings of dazzle-camouflaged ships from World War I, showing the range of the colors employed...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Dazzle Camouflage Costume Ball

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On March 12, 1919, the Chelsea Arts Club held a costume party, called a Dazzle Ball, at Royal Albert Hall in London. It was ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Vaterland | Leviathan

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Above are matching photos of a German ship initially called the SS Vaterland , until it was captured by the US and converted to a giant tr...

Camouflage Light and Not So Lite

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Above: A World War I-era comic drawing by American artist Ralph Briggs Fuller (1890-1963) from an issue of Cartoons Magazi...

Canadian Camouflage Exhibition

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During a span of eight months in 2007, the Imperial War Museum in London premiered an exhibition about the cultural histo...