Wednesday, June 26, 2013

San Francisco Camouflage Artists

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Chameleons, German book illustration (1897) We've recently located a 1919 news article that describes the return to San Francisc...

Camouflage Artist | Edgar Walter

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Edgar Walter, Beauty and the Beast (n.d.) Above A sculpture titled Beauty and the Beast (n.d.) by San Francisco artist Edgar (Melvill...

Camouflage Music | Dinner Disappears

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Above The cover of the sheet music for a song called Camouflage: A Soldier's Song , with words by F.P. Drowne and music by Harry C. Z...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Camouflage Around the House

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Above A cartoon by H.M. Bateman from Punch , February 27, 1918, p. 133. • Our thanks to Richard Hawkins for providing additional inf...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Camouflage Artist | Grant Wood

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Dust Jacket with Grant Wood painting (detail) Above Dust jacket for R. Tripp Evans, Grant Wood: A Life (New York: Knopf, 2010), based ...

Dazzle Camouflage in Obsolete! Magazine

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Cover of Obsolete! Magazine Number 8 (2013) In recent months , we were interviewed about dazzle camouflage by Iowa writer and editor R...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Dazzle-Camouflaged Coffee Cups

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Dazzle-painted coffee cups © Roy R. Behrens (2013) G.A. Martin, "Camouflaged Ship at Close Range Looks Like House Afire" in El...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Douglas Garofalo's Camouflage House

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David Garofalo (model), Camouflage House (1991) Thanks to David Versluis ' blogpost, today we found out about an architectural proj...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

John Dewey | Camouflaging One's Self

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Above World War I photograph of a British soldier, dressed in bark mimic sniper's outfit, posed beside a bark-covered observation pos...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Stephen Hobbs | Camouflage Pop-Up Book

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 Pop-up book (2013) © Stephen Hobbs In recent years, we've been following the work of a South African visual artist (based in Johann...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Dazzle Camouflage Bathing Suits

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Just when we thought we'd exhausted World War I photos and articles on dazzle-camouflage bathing suits , here are more. Above is a ne...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

A Vivid Account of Dazzle Camouflage

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Muirhead Bone, from Merchantmen-at-Arms (1919) THIS IS a large post, but deservedly so. It is a lengthy portion of a book (available i...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Camouflage Artist | Norman Wilkinson

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Norman Wilkinson (1919) Above At the end of World War I, British marine artist and poster designer Norman Wilkinson , who claimed to ha...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Abbott Thayer's Bald Head

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Above Recently we ran across this photograph from a 19th-century stereograph of an artist in his studio, entertaining his children (more...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Dazzle Camouflage as Delirium Tremens

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Above In an earlier post , we featured a World War I-era paragraph from the Washington Times , in which dazzle ship camouflage was compa...

Art and Camouflage | John Everett

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Above Watercolor painting by UK artist John Everett of the SS Sardinian (Allan Line) in 1918. The original is in the Beaverbrook Collec...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Ghost Army Camouflage DVD

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Good news! Rick Beyer's excellent documentary on the Ghost Army , the World War II deception unit, which premiered only last week, i...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Jonnie Morris Film on Dazzle Camouflage

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Jonnie Morris | Dazzle Camouflage Documentary Above I've known about this documentary film project since the fall of 2011, when I ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Camouflage Cultures Conference in Sydney

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Above This is an amazing poster, published in Australia (c1918) during World War I. It is a promotional poster for the wartime Peace Loa...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Ghost Army Camouflage Film on PBS

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Premiering late May 2013 on PBS television At last, coming soon to public television (Tuesday, May 21 on most PBS channels) is Rick Be...

Camouflage Cultures | 2013 Conference

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Bruce Bairnsfather, Fragments from France (1916) Figure disruption (as shown above in one of Bruce Bairnsfather 's famous World Wa...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Cécile Coutin on WWI French Camouflage

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Today we ordered a copy (sight unseen) of a recent book (the text is completely in French) by French art historian Cécile Coutin, titled...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

RISD Scholar Claudia Covert on Camouflage

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SS Mauretania in New York harbor on December 1, 1918 Above This is the most amazing photograph of a famous example of World War I daz...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Important Thayer Camouflage Exhibit

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Title slide of talk at National Sporting Library & Museum What a weekend it was. Mary and I have just returned from a quick trip ...