Friday, July 27, 2018

Dazzle-Painted USS Western Sea | A Bridge of Ships

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USS Western Sea in camouflage (1918) Above Government photograph of the USS W estern Sea , wearing a dazzle camouflage plan, on May 25...
Friday, July 6, 2018

UK Camoufleur Norman Wilkinson Visits as Advisor

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Reginald Higgins (1919), The Dazzler Above For the February 1919 issue of The Bystander magazine, Reginald Higgins created this satir...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

WWI Camouflage Illustrations by Algernon Black 1918

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Algernon Black (1918) At this point, we have no information about a WWI-era British illustrator named Algernon Black . But several days ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

French Maritime Museum Exhibit | Installation Views

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Views of dazzle exhibition in Brest, France (2018) In an earlier post, we featured an Australian cruise boat that had been dazzle-painte...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Tauba Auerbach | Dazzle Ship Camouflage in NYC

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Above Publicity shots of an experimental dazzle camouflage scheme, newly designed by American artist Tauba Auerbach (2018), and a...

Gerald Thayer Talks on Camouflage at Ithaca 1919

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G.H. Thayer, Cottontail Rabbit (1909). Public domain. Above Gerald H. Thayer , painting of a cottontail rabbit , first published as an...
Monday, July 2, 2018

Camouflaged Bathing Suit | A Swimming Idea WWI

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IT’S HERE ON THE BEACHES AT LAST—THE CAMOUFLAGED BATHING SUIT in Boston Sunday Post , August 18, 1918— Have you seen it? What does it loo...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Article on Gestalt Theory Chosen for Chinese Journal

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Leonardo: Journal of the International Society of Arts, Science and Technology (published by MIT Press) is celebrating its 50th anniversa...

Kevin Nute | Embedded Figures in Wright Floor Plans

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Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City There are few books I would recommend as highly as Kevin Nute's Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

The Fashion of Military Camouflage—and Goldfish

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Above Camouflage fashion image from En Vogue: The Fashion of Military Camouflage (including posted essay) at the website for Buy The Ca...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Herbert Barnard John Everett | More Information

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As a quick follow-up to our previous post , here's the link to a wonderful essay by art historian Gwen Yarker on British painter Her...

Herbert Barnard John Everett | An Interview in 1919

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William Orpen, Portrait of John Everett (c1900) In earlier posts , we've praised the wartime paintings of dazzle-painted ships by Br...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Teaching Camouflage | The Real Art of War 1917

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Top photo shows painted mural concealing the road In an earlier blog post , we shared drawings and photographs of the use of perspective...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Canada | Artists, Poets and Camoufleurs

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Brochure [detail] for In Broad Daylight Above and below Screen grabs from an online brochure in connection with an OpenStudio visiting...

Dazzle Camouflage Exhibit at St Barbe Museum UK

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Poster for St Barbe Museum Dazzle Exhibition Workshop (2018) Above Just recently posted is this magnificent poster, featuring a WWI-era...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

New Find | Edward Wadsworth's Ship Camouflage

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Above What a complete surprise to have found this, on the cover of the magazine section of The Detroit Free Press (Sunday, July 20, 1919...

More on Iowa-born Ship Camouflage Artist Carol Sax

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Des Moines Register Article on Carol Sax (1919) Above In August 2017, we featured a long blog post on an Iowa-born theatre designer n...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Role of American Women in WWI Camouflage

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American Women Camoufleurs
Saturday, May 12, 2018

SHIP SHAPE | A Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook

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SHIP SHAPE: A Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook

CAMOUPEDIA | Art, Architecture and Camouflage

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CAMOUPEDIA: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture & Camouflage

FALSE COLORS Art, Design & Modern Camouflage

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FALSE COLORS: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Camoupedia Site Map Link

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Camoupedia Site Map
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Ship Camouflage Website Revised and Updated

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Introduction We've embarked on a major revision, a complete overhaul, more or less, of our World War I ship camouflage research webs...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Our Tiger Saskia Just Died | Rest In Peace

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RIP Saskia the Cat (2018) Above Our cat Saskia just died. It's a quiet Sunday morning here, and she died peacefully at home about a...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Woodpecker Compared to Dazzle Camouflaged Ship

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Hypothetical ship camouflage / ivory-billed woodpecker Above Provocative justaposition of John James Audubon 's portrayal of a wood...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

How a Wild Ass Looks to a Color Blind Lion

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Thayer photograph in Central Park Above Photographic comparison of a stuffed zebra and a wild ass in Central Park in NYC, from Conceali...