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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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 ...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

no more spit and polish / WWI trench mud in your eye

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Above Rawley Morgan , "Our Involuntary Disguises" in The London Bystander , March 20, 1918, p, 613. ••• CAMOUFLAGE TOPIC OF PRESI...
Friday, March 27, 2026

styx and stones / on the trojan horse and camouflage

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Several Miles Longer than the Statue of Liberty / artist unknown John Kendrick Bangs , AT THE HOUSE BOAT ON THE STYX—In the Matter of Camouf...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

ship builders' union dazzle ship as WWI parade float

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A long time ago—can it really have been nine years ago?—we blogged about the use of large scale models of dazzle-camouflaged ships as parade...
Monday, March 16, 2026

marvelous designs and colors calculated to confuse

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Above Just when we think we've found everything, suddenly something new appears. The images above and below were made by British artist...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

a disconcerting confusion of colors and shapes in WWI

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Tank on display in Detroit (1918). Restored / colorized. Austin C. Lescarboura , SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF THE CAMOUFLAGE ART: Expert Writes...