Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Camouflage Exhibit at Spy Museum Opens in March

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Exhibition Catalog Cover I am pleased that I was asked to write the introduction to the catalog for a major upcoming exhibition at the Inter...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

a panoply of cartoonists' views of WWI camouflage

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Roy R. Behrens © 2026  
Saturday, January 3, 2026

alas, Grace Ripley's camouflaged gown has arrived

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Ruth St. Denis in costume (NYPL) Anon, " TIS HERE! THE CAMOUFLAGE GOWN! FAIR ARTIST HOOVERIZES DRESS in Oakland Tribune (Oakland CA),...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

German soldiers unseen except when surrendering

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WWI German artillery camouflage using overhead netting Clair Kenamore , From Vauquois Hill to Exermont; a history of the thirty-fifth divisi...

irregular streaks of black and white painted across it

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Unidentified WWI American ship with dazzle camouflage Edward Alva Trueblood , In the Flash Ranging Service: Observations of an American Sold...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

camouflage egg / do not begrudge conscientious fowl

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Grant Wood, The Appraisal (1931) Anon, HERE AND THERE in Country Life , January 1919— Just because the hen has somehow gotten the reputati...
Monday, December 29, 2025

can you find a camouflaged cat / an embedded figure

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Above Can you find the camouflaged cat? A Victorian-era puzzle picture from The Strand Magazine . ••• Roland Pertwee , "Camouflage...

geological dazzle painting / as in a certain small island

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agate pattern Author and exact source unknown, in Blackwood's Magazine , c1922— [The appearance of a certain small island] is very remar...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

I Never Met a Morphosis I Didn't Like / Smoke Dreams

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Two British comic drawings (c1890s) As I was growing up, adults used to discourage boys from smoking by saying, "Don't smoke or you...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Alon Bement's 1925 article on illusions & camouflage

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This five-page article on ship camouflage has now been posted online and can be downloaded as a pdf. Its author, American artist Alon Bemen...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Camouflaged Trench Digger in the War Zone / WWI

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Above A World War I-era cover illustration for Scientific American by Howard Vachel Brown (1878-1945), titled "Camouflaged Trench Di...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

a wooden superstructure, we dazzle-painted the sides

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Unidentified WWI truck camouflage Cecil Day Lewis [father of actor Daniel Day Lewis ], The Otterbury Incident . London: Putnam's Sons,...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

cleverly hidden in cotton clouds / a cartoon camouflage

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Back in 2019, we blogged about and reproduced the drawing from a wartime cartoon by British artist Bernard Hugh . Originally published in  T...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

dragon fly camouflage / from muck to flashing colors

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Poster © Roy R. Behrens 2019 American Nature-Study Society, The Nature-Study Review. Lancaster PA, November 1918— The submarine and camoufl...

khaki-colored dash down the boulevard in Hollywood

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Hollywood actor Wallace Reid Anon, in Picture Magazine (March-July 1918)— [Hollywood film star] Wallace Reid is busily engaged in studying...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

camouflage as a less hazardous wartime assignment

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US wartime camouflage in France, 1918 It is no surprise to learn that, in both world wars, draft eligible men in the US were apprehensive ab...

Nov shmoz ka pop / WWI spurious wacko camouflage

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an inept attempt at camouflage / WWI Gene Ahern (originator in 1921 of the Our Boarding House comic strip featuring Major Hoople), "A...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

the camouflage craze / a book on camou mania now

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Camou Mania CAMOU MANIA A stunningly designed, richly illustrated book on inventive applications of camouflage in fashion and other aspec...

popular fallacy about football / aka pigskin camouflage

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image source Lawrence M. Guyer , Football Camouflage , in Boys' Life (November 1929), p. 16— "Now, gentlemen," he continued, ...

turnip poses as onion / Buck Henry's mother's mimicry

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film lobby poster (1928) Motion Picture Magazine , March-July 1918— [ As leading-lady in Jack Spurlock—Prodigal , Hollywood actress Ruth Tay...