Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Joseph Harker | Dracula Meets Camouflage

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Portrait of Joseph Harker (n.d.) In the San Francisco Chronicle , on Sunday, May 11, 1919, a full-page article appeared on various aspec...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

More A.E. Hayward Camouflage Cartoons

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A.E. Hayward, September 27, 1917, p. 22 In an earlier post , we talked about American cartoonist  A.E. (Alfred Earl) Hayward (1884-1939)...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Trojan Horse Camouflage | Shakespeare Too

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Sheboygan Press , January 1, 1918, artist unknown Above A cartoon illustration on the historic antecedents of World War I camouflage as...

William Jennings Bryan's Camouflage 1918

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William Jennings Bryan (1908) Above William Jennings Bryan during 1908 presidential campaign. •••  (Anon, CAMOUFLAGE BY MRS. [WIL...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

A.E Hayward's Camouflage Cartoons

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Above Cartoon by A.E. (Alfred Earl) Hayward (1884-1939), from his daily series “The Padded Cell,” in the Philadelphia Public Ledger on Oc...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

What Is Camouflage? | René Bache

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René Bache, "What Is 'Camouflage'?" (1918) Above Full-page newspaper article titled “What Is Camouflage?” by René Bac...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

David Bower | Camouflaged Room Interiors

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All images © David Bower We've known about and admired the three-dimensional "camouflaged rooms" of Chicago-area artist Da...

Camouflage: Making a Cannon Look Like a Cow

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Above We recently found this delightful cartoon (which we've restored and reconstructed) in an old issue of the East Oregonian (Pendl...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Camouflage Artist | Eliot O'Hara

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Eliot O'Hara, Duval Street Above Recently we ran across a reproduction of an on-site watercolor painting by American artist Eliot O...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Teddy Bear Camouflage

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US Patent No 285,951 Above One of several drawings submitted for US Patent No. 285,951 , titled "Stuffed Toy Bear," invented ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Eric Sloane | Camouflage and Comic Books

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Eric Sloane (1942), Camouflage Simplified We've talked about American artist Eric Sloane (1905-1985) in an earlier blog , specifica...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

History of Camouflage Comic Book

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Camouflage comic © John Kramer Thanks to Claudia Covert , Special Collections Librarian at the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Ames Room and Chair Demonstration

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Adelbert Ames II (1880-1955) was an American lawyer and artist who was known for his discoveries in optical physiology and perceptual psy...
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...