Saturday, August 30, 2025

Glen Gano / US actor, cinematographer, camoufleur

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Actor and Hollywood cameraman Glen Gano (1892-1973), born in Kokomo IN , was the cinematographer for four Three Stooges productions: Booby...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Ezra Pound / on vorticism and WWI ship camouflage

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Above John Everett , SS Sardinian (Allan Line) discharging 6-in Shells made in Canada , c1918, as published in Canadian War Records Office,...

a rich beauty of color is given to camouflaged ships

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Charles Dickens (c1860s) C. Lewis Hind , ART AND I. New York: John Lane Company, 1921, p. 323— “… Paul and John Nash are originals, They w...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

camouflaged armored car devised in Massachusetts

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Capt Renwick with camouflaged armored car (1917) FORMER BAY STATE OFFICER OFFERS US ARMY NEW TYPE OF ARMORED CAR: Invention of Capt William ...
Monday, August 25, 2025

sudden death of a WWI cannon camoufleur in Ohio

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Above Interior view of Morgan Engineering plant (1915). Note camouflaged cannon in left foreground. ••• CANNON CAMOUFLAGER SUCCUMBS SUDDEN...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

stark bands of velvet breaking up colors throughout

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Unidentified WWI American ship camouflage PANTOMIME DRESSES in The Age (Melbourne, Australia), December 23, 1918— …of the dresses worn in ...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

a checkered harlequin with the camouflage of mockery

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Harlequin costume Henry C. Rowland , Cross-Bearings , in The Meriden Daily Journal (Meriden CT) July 13, 1921— A cold chill struck through ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Salt Lake City camouflage / World Wars One and Two

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USS Salt Lake City (1944) / WW2 Camouflage SALT LAKERS MAKE EFFORT TO ENROLL FOR "CAMOUFLAGE": Would Aid in Art of Concealing Mil...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

camoufleur Bérard made Chantecler farm yard scene

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costume from Chantecler Back in 2014, we blogged about the French stage designer Louis Bérard , perhaps best known as " le decorateur d...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

blue paint hard to clean up / never camouflaged again

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Tree Branches Used as Camouflage during WWI TOLD HARRY LAUDER HOW HIS SON DIED in Lewiston Evening Journal (Lewiston ME), December 30, 1918...

Norman Wilkinson / UK dazzle camoufleur lives again

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British artist / camoufleur Norman Wilkinson Now here’s an odd discovery: The British artist Norman Wilkinson (we've blogged about him ...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Picasso, camouflage, and the moth known as Picasso

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Above This is, believe it or not, an insect called the Picasso Moth , known scientifically as Baorisa hieroglyphica. It was discovered by t...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

camouflage artist's profile appears on Buffalo nickel

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Buffalo Nickel Ramon D. Forbes, NUMISMATIC NOTES in Philatelic West (Lincoln NE), Nebraska Philatelic Society, 1918— I wonder how many of ...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Maurice G. Debonnet / account of naval camouflage

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Maurice G. Dubonnet In an earlier but recent blog post, on July 29 , we reprinted a 1918 article on WWI ship camouflage, written by a French...