Wednesday, April 29, 2020

New England camouflage | An art of Yankee origin

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New England Historical Society online article Above Click here for quite a good article on World War I camouflage in New England.

Giraffic Park | Periscope bathing when sub submerged

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Ralph Hershberger (1942) Ralph Hershberger , Funny Business cartoon In The Sacramento Bee , October 19, 1942. The caption reads: “My ne...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Old Man Camoufle who cleverly rearranged the spots

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Gary Kelley © 1994 Above The Regionalist , poster illustration for an Iowa arts festival, by Gary Kelley (1994). ••• Ray K. Moulton, “C...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Do you follow me? That's someways behind I'd say

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Above Little Pal comic strip by Leo O'Mealia , in The Sacramento Bee , January 10, 1918.
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Barber pole periscopes and erratic cubist patriots

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Dazzle-painted US ship (c1918). Digital coloring. BARBER POLE PERISCOPES: Submarine Invisibility Plan Tested at Navy Yard , in New Yor...

Thayer painting with a broom | Let there be a rock!

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Abbott H. Thayer, Stevenson Memorial (1903) Rockwell Kent , It’s Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent . New York: Dodd, Mead an...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

A monstrous feeling of slipping off the world's edge

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C.R.W. Nevinson (c1919) Above Christopher R.W. Nevinson , Banking at Four Thousand Feet , as reproduced in Christian Brinton, War paint...

To camouflage the starkness of man-dealt horrors

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WWI camouflaged troop ship loading (c1918) Bertram Wolfe , The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera . New York: Stein and Day, 1963, pp. 95-96—...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Harrison S. Morris | His memories of Abbott H. Thayer

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Harrison S. Morris Above Photograph of Harrison S. Morris (1856-1948), a writer, editor, and arts administrator. From 1893-1905, he wa...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Enlisting our amateur poets for wartime camouflage

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SS Perfection (c1918) Above Dazzle camouflage applied to the SS Perfection , Emergency Fleet Corporation. Digital coloring. ••• ...

U-boat destroyed by deck guns on American tanker

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HMS Balmoral Castle (1918) Above HMS Balmoral Castle [not the ship described below], a camouflaged British troopship as photographed...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Camouflage artists turn Velie automobile into a fig tree

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WWI military vehicle (not a Velie automobile) ARTIST TURNS AUTO INTO A FIG TREE: Camouflage to save American lives , in The Los Ange...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Randolph Bourne, Abbott Thayer, and pandemic flu

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Randolph Bourne At the end of World War I, there was a major flu pandemic that began in January 1918 and continued to December 1920. Abo...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Theatrical special effects | Thayer's disappearing man

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Abbott H. Thayer holding one of his duck decoys (upsidedown) Until recently, I had not heard of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), an American ...
Friday, April 3, 2020

When I was a boy I saw Cokes and ice cream cones

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Drawings for Game Blind (US Patent 2,992,503), 1961 Byron P. Hovey , One Jump Ahead: Memories of a Yankee . New York: Exposition Press, ...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Video on making a replica of a WWI camouflaged ship

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dazzle ship model video Above A screengrab from a wonderful new short video by Michael Alm on how to make a wooden replica of a dazz...

Gertrude Stein as camouflaged in self-effacing Alice

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Above Roy R. Behrens , front cover of dust jacket for COOK BOOK: Gertrude Stein, William Cook, and Le Corbusier (Dysart IA: Bobolink Bo...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Concealing bad tattoos | A cluster of forget-me-nots

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Cover illustration for Puck (1917). Library of Congress. Above Satirical portrait of a tattooed Theodore Roosevelt , from the cover o...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Freighters as unrecognizable as a portrait by Picasso

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Hypothetical dazzle schemes © Roy R. Behrens Lee Simonson , THE WAR AS ART CRITIC in Minor Prophecies . New York: Harcourt Brace, 1927,...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Only spurious resemblance—or is it natural mimicry

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Above (top) is a rendering of an especially odd-looking insect, native to the Amazon, the Latin name of which is Fulgora laternaria ....
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Architect Harold Sterner documented ship camouflage

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American architect Harold Sterner Albert Sterner (1863-1946) was a prominent American painter and illustrator. His brother was an archi...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Robert Baden-Powell's camouflaged spy diagrams

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If anyone recalls the name of Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell , most likely it's because he was the founder of the Boy Scou...