Monday, May 9, 2011

Architectural Camouflage in WW2

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Cover of Architecture in Uniform . Canadian Centre for Architecture , 2011. From Jean-Louis Cohen , Archite...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

Edward Wadsworth | Camouflage

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Wadsworth in process of painting (1919) What a glorious find! In an old issue of the New York Herald on April 20, 1919 (p. 13), we...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Camouflage Artist | McClelland Barclay

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From the McClelland Barclay entry in CAMOUPEDIA: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouf...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Alon Bement | Georgia O'Keeffe's Teacher

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Camouflage Article by Alon Bement in Washington Times , June 15, 1919 Alon Bement was born in Ashfield MA o...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

O Blazing Tiger of William Blake

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Cover illustration of a dazzle-painted ship (1918) On the cover of the October 12, 1918, issue of The Independe...

Prohibition Camouflage

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Prohibition Camouflage This is a wonderful photograph from a pictorial page in The New York Tribune on April 2, 1922....
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Camouflage Artist | Ben Kutcher

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Ben Kutcher, book illustration There was a note published in The Bookman , a New York-based literary journal, in 1...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

French Camoufleurs in Huge Diorama

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Panthéon de la Guerre (1918), detail From Roy R. Behrens , Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, ...

WWI Umbrella Camouflage

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Disruptive shadows in a Spanish street festival (c1909) For whatever reason, there was increased interest in the...
Saturday, April 9, 2011

WWI Ship Camouflage Teams

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  Location of WWI Ship Camouflage Teams © Roy R. Behrens When the US entered World War I, the design of all ship camouflage , includi...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

WWI Camouflaged Machine Guns

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Anon. WWI-era magazine photo. What a wonderfully clear, sharp image this is of a WWI transport wagon for two machine gu...

Metamorphosis and Camouflage | Visual Pun

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Anon, a 19th-century visual metamorphosis In the Victorian era, there was considerable emphasis on and appreciation of wit , i...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Camouflage and Everett Warner's Cousin

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I recently found an old memoir by an American clergyman named John B. Ferguson , a graduate of Miami University of Ohio (1903), who was past...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Henry Adams on Art and Camouflage

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[The images above are three stages in an illustration of a copperhead snake that first appeared in Conc...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

WWI Ship Camouflage | Video

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Friday, January 28, 2011

Camouflage Symposium | OSU 2011

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http://camouflage.osu.edu/
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Everett L. Warner | Camouflage Artist

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Roy R. Behrens © Everett L. Warner Website
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Dazzle-Camouflaged Coffee Mugs

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Roy R. Behrens © Dazzle-Camouflaged Coffee Cups (2011).

Kinds of Camouflage

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© Roy R. Behrens , see FALSE COLORS (2002) and CAMOUPEDIA (2009). 
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...