Tuesday, May 27, 2025

aha / painting cheese on the moon in a lunar eclipse

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Above US Government photograph of American artist (and wartime camoufleur) Charles Bittinger painting an eclipse of the moon on site, as i...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

airplane plants camouflaged by set designers in WWII

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Lockheed plant (before) Lockheed plant (after) Above and below Various US government views of a WWII aircraft factory , concealed from aer...
Saturday, May 3, 2025

Wol I thought you was part of the camouflage scheme

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Above Charles Grave , cartoon from Punch , January 23, 1918: Docker (to Jack, who has been silently regarding him). “Wot yer starin’ at, No...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Edwin Howland Blashfield / was he a ship camoufleur

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Edwin Howland Blashfield During his life time, American artist Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936) was typically referred to as “the dean o...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

WPA artists / engineers also worked on camouflage

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Recently, while preparing a talk about the Depression-era WPA (Works Progress Administration), I was surprised to find how many American ca...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

camouflage / war work training for art school students

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Ad, The Boston Post , June 8, 1941 WAR WORK FEATURE FOR ART STUDENTS in Trenton Evening Times (Trenton NJ), September 18, 1918— All class...
Monday, April 21, 2025

stained glass artist / WWI camoufleur / bird enthusiast

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Len R. Howard, Grace Church window Surely, there can’t be many people—outside of those who specialize in stained glass window design— who ha...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

architects / they have an eye for the looks of things

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Above Photograph of Homer Saint-Gaudens , by De Witt Clinton Ward. ••• HOLLYWOOD PROP MEN ABLE AT WAR CAMOUFLAGE in The Boston Globe , Jan...

ship camouflage as practiced to some slight extent

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Above A public domain photograph of the USS Constitution in 1919. The informative, lengthy text below is a letter submitted by a Boston-ar...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Jack Frost as master camouflage artist / WWII cartoon

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Sorry. I don’t find this terribly funny. Nor interesting. Nor do I know the artist, whose cryptic signature (which I can’t read) is at the b...

camouflage applied to NYC police boats during WWI

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Above An odd discovery. In an issue of the Spokesman Review (Spokane WA) on November 4, 1917, this photograph (poor quality vintage halfto...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

WWI camouflage of Massachusetts State House dome

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STATE HOUSE DOME IS TO BE DISGUISED in Christian Science Monitor (June 6, 1918)— BOSTON, Mass—In view of the presence of submarines off th...

Homer St. Gaudens as drawn by Gordon Stevenson

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Above Cover of TIME magazine (May 12, 1924), featuring a portrait of Homer St. Gaudens (son of the celebrated sculptor Augustus St. Gaude...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

sculptor Frederick Triebel denied role as camoufleur

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American artist Frederick E. Triebel (1865-1944) was not a camouflage artist. He was certainly qualified, and he offered to enlist as that...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

the role of taxidermy in World War I field camouflage

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Above The headline for this photograph was WITH AID OF TAXIDERMIST, FRENCH HID BATTERY IN PASTORAL SCENE BY CAMOUFLAGE . It appeared in the...

New York City bootblack camouflages woman's legs

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Above This news photograph, with the headline LOOK, GIRLS’ COOLER’N SILK HOSE , appeared in the Arizona Republican (August 3, 1919) with t...

students camouflaged in annual campus flour fight

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Above Absurdities abound. This news photograph, from the Guthrie Daily Leader in Guthrie OK (May 25, 1920, p. 4), purports to show freshman...

WWI camouflaged clowns perform at the French front

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Above Photograph from a news article titled HERE’S SIDESHOW TO WAR’S BIG TENT in the Perth Amboy [New Jersey] Evening News (September 4,...

Boston police find gun camouflaged as a pocket knife

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Above Photograph from a news article titled PISTOL CAMOUFLAGED AS A KNIFE WHICH WAS DISCOVERED BY THE BOSTON POLICE in the Albuquerque Mo...
Friday, April 4, 2025

the camouflage of the backs of low-cut evening gowns

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Above This news photograph was published in the Evening Journal (Wilmington DE), May 8, 1920, p. 1, shortly after the end of World War I, ...

the squad of daubers who applied camouflage patterns

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Above I have no good explanation for this. It is a group photograph that appeared in the Evening Public Ledger-Philadelphia on August 21, ...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

celebrated Hollywood art director was US camoufleur

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To my surprise, I have known about Richard Day for years. I simply hadn’t realized that a camoufleur named Richard Day was the same person ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

WWI Armenian-American camoufleurs in US Army

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WWI American poster Back in 2013, I first learned about an Armenian-born American artist named Nishan G. Toor (born Nishan G. Tooroonjian),...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Luther E. DeJoiner / WWI American ship camoufleur

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Luther E. DeJoiner The number and variety of artists, designers, illustrators, stage designers, and architects who served as camouflage expe...