Thursday, November 27, 2014

Aaron Hegert | Thayer's Concealing Coloration

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Gerald H. Thayer (c1909), Male Ruffed Grouse in Forest When the first edition of Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom was publis...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Laura Levin on Camouflage & Performance Art

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Above The dust jacket of a new important book : Laura Levin, Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage and the Art of Blending In . London: Palg...

Camouflage Skirts: A Sartorial Disaster

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Rebecca Palmer (1884), Crazy Quilt Above An example of a crazy quilt , made with silk and velvet by Rebecca Palmer (1884). Collection...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Was Credit Camouflaged? | Roosevelt Murals

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William Andrew Mackay booklet on Roosevelt murals (1944) Here's yet another post about American muralist William Andrew Mackay , who...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Bittern Camouflage

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Above An American Bittern in camouflage stance in the Myaka River State Park, Florida, as photographed by Sabine Rodens (2006), from Wi...

Michael Torlen Remembers Hoyt L. Sherman

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Photographs © Richard Koenig Above We will never cease to be amazed by the illusionistic photographs (he calls them " photograph...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Dazzle Camouflage | Deception & Illusion

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On Monday, November 17, 2014, UNI Professor and Distinguished Scholar Roy R. Behrens will talk about World War I ship camouflage in a pro...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Camouflage | Simulated Cuttlefish Skin

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Article on John Rogers' research (2014) In earlier posts , we've talked about the research of Woods Hole marine biologist Roge...

Dazzle Sculpture | Christopher Manzione

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Dazzle © Christopher Manzione A colleague of ours, photographer Noah Doely , recently called our attention to an outdoor public sculptu...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Film | DC Talk on Abbott Thayer & Camouflage

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Roy R. Behrens (©2014), talk on Abbott H. Thayer and camouflage As noted earlier , in mid-March 2014, The Origins of Camouflage , an ex...
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...