Sunday, April 27, 2014

Learning from Abbott H. Thayer

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A.H. Thayer, diagrams of figure-ground relationships (c1909) Richard S. Merryman, Wood Duck (c1909) Above Two illustrations from ...

Depression, Fear and Camouflage

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Ad for US Camoufleurs stage performance (1918) Above Newspaper advertisement for a dramatic stage performance by members of the US Army...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Camoufleurs Gerome Brush and Barry Faulkner

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Gerome Brush (n.d.), Busts of Barry Faulkner Above Two of three plaster busts (date unknown) of New Hampshire muralist (and co-founde...

Dazzle Camouflage Stockings

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Calvert H. Smith, camouflage stockings cartoon (1919) Above Wartime cartoon by Calvert H. Smith of "camouflage stockings" in ...

Camouflage Artist | Harry Emerson Lewis

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Emerson Lewis, Gray Dunes and Desert Verbena We're trying to find information about an American Impressionist painter named Harry Em...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Trompe l'Oeil Camouflage

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Richard W. Rummell (c1918) Anon (1919) Above (top) During World War I, American artist Richard W. Rummell (1848-1924) made this wat...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Thomas Hart Benton & WWI Camouflage

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Article in Kansas City Star Above News article on the opening of an exhibit (at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City) abou...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Camouflage Is Criminal

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Laurel and Hardy in bungled prison escape From Solomon J. Solomon , Strategic Camouflage . New York: E.P. Dutton, 1920— When a man wou...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Camouflage Artist | Thomas Hart Benton

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Benton camouflage kiosk at the National WWI Museum (Kansas City) Well, maybe it's stretching it slightly to say that American arti...

RISD Camouflage | SS Matilda Weems

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In October 2013, we posted two views of a World War I dazzle-camouflaged Matilda Weems , as photographed on 23 August 1918. Recently,...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Thayer in Relation to Conservation & Wildlife

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Above Title slide for an illustrated lecture on Abbott Handerson Thayer in relation to nature, conservation, and wildlife preservation, ...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Abbott Handerson Thayer | His Life and Work

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Abbott H. Thayer Camouflage Experiments (c1915) Above Detail from an index page for a newly posted website on American artist, natura...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Intrepid Museum Camouflage Exhibit | NYC

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Above Promotional panel for Masters of Disguise: The World of Camouflage , on view at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in NYC thr...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

More WW1 Camouflage Sheet Music

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Sheet music cover for Camouflage (1917) In earlier posts, we've talked about camouflage-related sheet music from World War I. Abov...
Friday, February 28, 2014

General Pershing and WW1 Army Camouflage

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Pershing Inspecting Artillery Camouflage (c1918) You may remember an earlier post in which we recalled the day when US President Woodro...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

WW1 Ship Camouflage as Hughesual

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Above Photograph by Steve Ibbitson of British artist Patrick Hughes , holding an Ames rotating trapezoid window. From John Slyce, Patri...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Baseball's Outlawed Camouflaged Bat

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Goose Goslin with his camouflaged baseball bat Above A news photograph (c1932) of Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin , who played lef...

Town & Country Car Camouflage

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Town and country camouflage (1940) The following news article, titled CAMOUFLAGE OF CARS: Must Be Different from Services , appeared in ...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Camouflage Artist | Jan Gordon

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Jan Gordon (1888-1944), née Godfrey Jervis Gordon, was a British author, artist, musician and lecturer. With his wife Cora (Turner) Gordo...

USS Cambria | Camouflaged Ship Model

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USS Cambria ship model Above As of this posting, there is an online listing by Skinner Auctioneers of a scale model of the World War I...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

New Abbott Thayer Camouflage Exhibit

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New Abbott Thayer exhibit in Washington DC Above The Army and Navy Club Library Trust Committee, with support from the Smithsonian Inst...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

BBC | World War 1 Dazzle Camouflage

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BBC website on WW1 ship camouflage From a new informative blog post on dazzle ship camouflage at the BBC's iWonder World War One C...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Truly Dazzling WW1 Ship Camouflage

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buy online Above There are countless examples of astonishing dazzle camouflage schemes from World War I (as well as World War II, desp...
Friday, February 7, 2014

The Dazzle Painter | John Everett Revisited

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John Everett (c1918), Lepanto Above We've talked about British painter John Everett before. Last month, we featured the poster that...