Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Seymour Reit / cartoonist, animator, writer, camoufleur

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Since early childhood, I have known about Casper the Friendly Ghost , a cartoon character who first appeared in comic books in the late 1940...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

was utter nonsense / camouflage as painting things up

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Bus for wounded soldiers at WWI fundraising rally [colorized] Peter Rodyenko , “Camouflage: Modern aerial photography outmodes paint, result...
Monday, July 20, 2026

painting camouflage on trucks—then washing it off

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WWI camouflaged ammunition truck (colorized) Eugene Wokal , quoted in Ronald Naversen , The Scenographer as Camoufleur . Dissertation. Carbo...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Hidden Humor / World War One camouflage cartoons

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I have just premiered a new 14-minute documentary video talk, titled HIDDEN HUMOR: World War One Cartoonists' Views of Camouflage . It i...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

deformed ships like papier-maché caves of polar bears

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Until recently I had no idea that the architect Le Corbusier had ever mentioned camouflage in his published writings, albeit he was interes...
Saturday, May 9, 2026

swimmingly attired / a dazzling disguise at the beach

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Above Dazzle-patterned beach attire , which became a fashion craze near the end of World War I. Digital coloring. ••• News item in the San...

jackies removing ship camouflage paint / documented

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painting over camouflage at war's end It is not easy to find historic photographs of ships in the process of having their camouflage app...
Friday, May 1, 2026

preparing models for testing WWI dazzle camouflage

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This is such an interesting photograph. The caption reads "Making models for testing World War I ship camouflage." The original is...
Friday, April 24, 2026

this weekend / public slide presentation on camouflage

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On Sunday April 26 at 2 pm, I will be speaking at the English Valleys History Center at 108 North Main in North English IA. It's free an...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

like a circus / weird triangles and lines over the hulls

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Above Cover illustration by C. McKnight Smith for Scientific American , October 26, 1918. ••• Robert H. Ferrell , Woodrow Wilson and World...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

a timeline of developments in camouflage research

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Above Opening page of Roy R. Behrens , A Camouflage Timeline 1858-2009 . This 16-page chronology has now been posted as a downloadable pdf ...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Grant Wood's camouflage service during World War I

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WWI French artillery camouflage It is by now common knowledge that when Iowa artist Grant Wood served in the US Army during World War I, he...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Shoeless Joe Jackson was a ship camouflage painter

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Shoeless Joe JACKSON DOING BIT BY PAINTING SHIPS: FORMER WHITE SOX OUTFIELDER OBTAINS POSITION IN SHIPYARD: Not Only Man in Baseball Who Dis...
Friday, April 3, 2026

oddly festooned cubist quilts / dazzling pictorial archive

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THE BRADFORD ERA (Bradford PA), April 5, 1918, p. 2— The stanchest upholders of the academic in art can scarcely carry their opposition to ...

a cubist romance / 'mong the cubes i'd love to ramble

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Above   Cubism predated WWI French Army camouflage, more or less. This still image is from Rigadin painter cubist [Rigadin the Cubist Pain...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

free and open to the public / art and camouflage talk

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Coming soon. Save the date.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

in the process of applying ship camouflage during WWI

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Above There are few photographs of World War I ship camouflage (maybe a dozen or fewer) in the process of being applied. This one may have ...