Monday, May 26, 2014

What Was It Like To Paint A Ship In Camouflage?

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Above Port side (top) and starboard side of the SS War Magpie , a British cargo ship, painted in dazzle camouflage . The designs o...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Gulls, Hulls and Baby Carriage Camouflage

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Above Believe it or not, this is a World War 1-era baby carriage, made by an unknown artist, apparently as a tribute to dazzle ship camou...

To Take Off Weight—Use Camouflage

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G.L. Stampa, Punch (1919) Above Cartoon by G.L. Stampa in Punch magazine, July 2, 1919, p. 26. The caption reads: She: "What a w...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Perspective Illusions in Camouflage

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Joseph Allen Minturn (c1921), camouflage backdrops The use of perspective distortions (such as forced perspective ) in World War 1 cam...

WW1 Camouflaged Misogyny—After a Fashion

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Civilian examples of camouflage (1917) Above Camouflage and fashion cartoon (digitally restored) from The Ogden Standard (Ogden UT), De...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Chintzy Camouflage Fashions

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Blending camouflage by Starr Wood (1921) Above A camouflage-fashion related cartoon by British artist Starr Wood, as published in Punch ...
Friday, May 16, 2014

WW1 Ship Camouflage Secrecy & Arrests

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USS Leviathan in camouflage (1918) Above Close-up view of the port side camouflage of the USS Leviathan , at South Side Pier No. 4, H...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

More on Camoufleur Frederick J. Waugh

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Frederick J. Waugh , SS West Mahomet (ship and model) (c1919) Above (top) More persuasive evidence of the ingenuity of American ship c...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Camouflage Artist | Frederick J. Waugh

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Camouflage of USS Proteus by Frederick J. Waugh (c1918) In earlier posts , we've talked about American painter Frederick Judd Wau...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Horse of a Different Color & Stripe

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Albino Zebra Above Photograph of an albino zebra, from a Creative Commons image on Wikimedia. ••• Add this to our earlier posting...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Hen House Camouflage | World War 1

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Fox and hounds—and chickens (1917) Above (top) The US entered World War 1 in 1917. In advance of that, a group of American artists o...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Dazzle-Camouflaged Zebra

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Above World War I-era cartoon by George Morrow , published in Punch magazine, April 7, 1915, p. 280. The caption reads: REMARKABLE CASE ...

Dazzle Balls and Cricketeers

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Cartoon by Tom Cottrell in Punch (1919) Above In early 1919, with the end of the Great War at hand, increased coverage was allowed of ...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Social Uses of Camouflage

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Dazzle-Painted Ship (c1919) Above Unidentified World War I dazzle-camouflaged ship (probably British) (c1919). ••• Anon, from CAMO...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Your Stern Is Where Your Head Should Be

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Directional distortion plan (1918) Above Anon, detail of a colored drawing of a World War I dazzle ship camouflage plan in the collect...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Camouflage Artist | W.W. Henderson

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W.W. Henderson (c1918), ship camouflage Above Colored drawing of a dazzle ship camouflage plan (c1918), signed W.W. Henderson, now in ...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

WW1 Josephean Dazzle Painting

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Book cover, 1917 (2012) Above Front cover of book (French text) on World War I, by Claire Garnier and Laurent Le Bon, titled 1917 . Cen...
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...