Friday, December 28, 2018

Charles Pears | Dazzle Camouflage Magazine Cover

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Magazine Cover (1918) The Independent was a prominent, influential American magazine that began in New York in 1848 and continued public...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Newly Discovered Photo | Women Paint USS Recruit

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Having blog posted, exhibited and written about the dazzle-painting of the USS Recruit by a crew from the Women's Camouflage Corps ...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Chicago Skyline Camouflage | Merchandise Mart

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Camouflaged Merchandise Mart (c1943), Chicago In its May 23, 1943 issue, The Milwaukee Sentinel included an illustrated article on the ...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Painted Battlefield Helmets during World War One

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Above Allied soldier during WWI with a disruptively-painted helmet. ••• Anon, IN ART CIRCLES , in Long Beach Independent (long Beac...

Architect J. André Smith and WWI Camouflage

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On-site colored drawing by J. André Smith (1918) With luck, however belated, we have just discovered an on-going exhibition about J. And...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Philip Little | Boston Common Camouflage

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Philip Little (1918), Camouflaged Liberty Loan Building, Boston Common In earlier posts, we reported on the World War I camouflage exper...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Anne Lemanski Animal Posters Now Available Online

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Online Selection of Posters In recent weeks, we've been posting on this blog a selection of posters designed this semester by graphi...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Hartman Poster Exhibit about Anne Lemanski's Art

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Poster by Sabrina Wiebold (2018) Here are a few more examples of various posters that were made by graphic design students at the Unive...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Dazzle Camouflage | Chicanery & Conspicuousness

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essay by Roy R. Behrens This essay on the "social repercussions of World War I ship camouflage," originally published about a...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Hartman Poster Exhibit about Anne Lemanski's Art

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Animal Poster Exhibit (2018) Very soon I will retire from university teaching. My final semester is nearly over, about four more weeks t...

Making Dazzle Ships at the Tishman Auditorium

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Public talk on ship camouflage (2018) Above A guest presentation I gave on Thursday evening (November 15) at the Tishman Auditorium at...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

An Evening of Dazzling Talks About Ship Camouflage

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I am greatly looking forward to a talk I will be giving (about World War I ship camouflage) tomorrow evening (November 15) at 6:30 pm at...
Saturday, November 3, 2018

Lemanski Animal Posters | Julia Sippola 2018

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Poster by Julia Sippola 2018 The animal sculptures featured in these three posters are the work of a North Carolina-based artist named A...

Lemanski Animal Posters | Hartman Nature Center

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Poster by Erica Scherer (2018) The delightful bird sculpture in this poster is the work of a North Carolina-based artist named Anne Lema...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Assembly | The Work of Dazzle Camouflage

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Above Details of the windows at the entrance of the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls IA. Translated into large-scale vinyl are ...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Disruption Vs. Dazzle | Prevalent Misunderstandings

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Above This essay has just been published privately as a full-color booklet. It discusses misunderstandings about the way in which World...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

UK Art Historian James Fox on WWI Ship Camouflage

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Above Posted only days ago, as part of a series of excellent videos called HENI TALKS: Stories of Art from the world's leading expert...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Camouflage | The Seafaring Circus of Admiral Sims

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Sims' Circus On April 16, 1918, an American artist named Childe Hassam was walking in Riverside Park in New York, when he saw a str...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

New York Times Article on WWI Dazzle Camouflage

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NYC ship camouflage by T auba Auerbach (2018) We were quoted in The New York Times this morning in an interesting article by James Ba...
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 ...