Saturday, August 30, 2014

Maynard Dixon, Dorothea Lange & Camouflage

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Maynard Dixon, Sunset magazine, cover illustration Recently we were able to watch on Public Television a two-hour American Masters film...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Ship Camouflage | Wartime Dazzle Painting

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L. Campbell Taylor (1919), watercolor In the last year of World War 1, a writer named Hugh Hurst published an illustrated article on s...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Painting of a Dazzle-Camouflaged Ship

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Kenneth D. Shoesmith, HMS Queen (1919) In recent weeks, we were delighted to receive a photograph (full view above) of a painting by UK...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Camouflage Artist | Henry Reuterdahl (Again)

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Henry Reuterdahl poster (1917). Public domain. In an earlier post , we talked about Swedish-born American artist Henry Reuterdahl (1871-...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Camouflage Artist | Henry Reuterdahl

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Portraits of Henry Reuterdahl Above Three portraits of Swedish-born American artist Henry Reuterdahl. The pen-and-ink drawing is from...
Friday, July 25, 2014

More on Golf, Camouflage & Alister Mackenzie

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Inspired by Mackenzie's bunkers, or did art inspire him ? In the blog post prior to this one, we talked about Dr. Alister Mackenz...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Link Between Golf and Camouflage

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Alister Mackenzie (1915), demonstration of trench camouflage There is a direct connection between golf and camouflage. It resides ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Camouflaged Courtship

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Grandma Demon Chaperone (1917) Above A cartoon by F. Fox from the Richmond Times-Dispatch , August 21, 1917, p. 7. An accompanying head...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

More HMS President Camouflage News

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News article from Mail Online Above Another news article , this one from the London Daily Mail , reporting on the centenary "dazzl...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Newly Camouflaged HMS President

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Dazzle-Camouflaged HMS President World War 1 began in 1914 (the US did not enter the war until 1917), so for the British and others, thi...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Countershading | Thayer's Disappearing Ducks

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from MAS Context (Summer 2014) We have featured earlier posts about American artist and naturalist Abbott H. Thayer’s use of wooden d...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

Braque's Camouflaged Squirrel

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Camouflaged Squirrel © Karl Frey Above Karl Frey , Camouflaged Squirrel (c2009). Digital media. Available for online purchase . Court...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Harlequin Crew | Inadvertent Camouflage Plan

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Dazzle-camouflaged SS Australford (c1918) Above (top) Port side and (bottom) starboard view of the SS Australford , a British Co...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Edward Morton | More Milwaukee Camouflage

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Restoration of WPA mural by Edward Morton (1938) Above A Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural (titled Winter Sport...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Camouflage Artist | Milwaukee's Eric Gugler

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Eric Gugler (c1918), structural deception ploys Above Eric Gugler, three-stage diagram for a World War I ship camouflage proposal (c19...