Friday, April 8, 2016

Making Faces | Masking Wartime Horrors

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A delightful time was had yesterday while participating in an art and design conference at St Ambrose University in Davenport IA. Titled F...

WWI Ship Camouflage | Smithsonian Magazine

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Above As of yesterday, the website for Smithsonian Magazine has posted a special online report on WWI ship camouflage by Linda Rodrigue...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Abbott H. Thayer's Camouflage at Williams College

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Thayer Exhibition as viewed through duck silhouette Several years ago, as we repeatedly blogged about then, it became known that a sub...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Camouflage Artist | John Vassos

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Cover of John Vassos biography (2016) We are awaiting the release of the first book-length biography of the American book artist, design...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Camouflage Artist | Manley Dewitt Barber

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Charles & Anna Drain House, Drain OR Above Charles and Anna Drain House (1893-1895) in Drain OR, designed by George F. Barber, bro...

Robert Williams Wood | Carrot in Camouflage

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Robert W. Wood, How to Tell the Birds From the Flowers Above One of the comparative illustrations in How To Tell the Birds from the Flo...

Paul J.E. Dezentjé's Art of Camouflage

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Above Title panel from Paul J.E. Dezentjé's The Art of Camouflage blogpost at foundnyc . ••• Anon, A GOOD WAITER in Urbana Dail...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Camouflage Artist | Walter L. Tubesing

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French camoufleurs armband insignia (not the US version)* Walter L. Tubesing (1889-1949) was an American artist from St. Paul MN. He ...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Dazzle Camouflage Animated | Designer Joe Myers

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Joe Myers, Dazzle Camouflage (2015) Graphic designer Joe Myers, who earned his degree at Northern Illinois University, has made a delig...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Martin Stevens on Cheats and Deceits in Nature

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Book jacket for Cheats and Deceits (2016) A wonderful new book by zoologist Martin Stevens is out today in the UK, with US release to fo...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

Women's Dazzle-Painting Team at NYPL

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Above and below are public domain news photographs (1918), showing members of the Women's Reserve Camouflage Corps applying d...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Duplicitous Roadsters Camouflaged and Otherwise

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Advertising auto (c1919), Conover T. Silver Above and below Views of World War I-era cleverly modified roadsters   designed by Conover...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Patternalia Meets Camoupedia

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Cover, Patternalia by Jude Stewart Jude Stewart is a Chicago-based writer. Back in 2013, she published a five-part online series abou...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson on Camouflage

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Above Photograph of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, and (to the left) cover of a recent edition of his famous book (originally published...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Camouflage | A Checkered Past

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USS Panaman (c1918) Above US government photograph of the port side of the USS Panaman (c1918) in dazzle camouflage. Courtesy US Natio...

Mud to Mufti | Oleo in Camouflage

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Camouflaged armored car (c1918) Above Disruptively-painted WWI Rolls-Royce armored car (with turret machine gun removed), mired in mud,...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

J. André Smith and Camouflaged Tents

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J. André Smith (1917), WWI camouflaged tents Above In the November 1917 issue of the Architectural Record , American artist and archite...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Camouflage Artist | J. Clinton Shepherd

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American artist J. Clinton Shepherd J[oy] Clinton Shepherd (1888-1975), an American muralist, illustrator and sculptor, is typically re...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Camouflage Artist | Edward Hurst

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Charcoal drawing, Edward Hurst Above Charcoal portrait by American artist Edward Hurst (c1930). ••• Edward Hurst (1912-1972) was...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

German Ship Camouflage (Tarnung)

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Camouflaged WWII German minesweeper Above (and below ) photographs of disruptively patterned WWII German ships (called Sperrbrecher ) u...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Milwaukee Art Museum Camouflage

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Panoramic lithograph (detail) of Milwaukee WI (1898) Above A detail of a panoramic view of downtown Milwaukee WI (East Water Street l...

Ship Camouflage | Why Sailors Hate Paint

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WWI camouflaged British merchant ship Above (top) Port and (bottom) starboard views of the SS Hunnie , a dazzle-camouflaged World War...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Architects and Camouflage | Roy C. Jones

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Architect and camoufleur Roy C. Jones Above Portrait photograph of American architect Roy Childs Jones (1885-1963), who was for many ye...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Camouflage Artist | Charles Hafner

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Charles Hafner, Peter Pan (1928) Above Sculpture by Charles Hafner of literary character Peter Pan , originally made in 1928 for a fou...