Friday, February 28, 2014

General Pershing and WW1 Army Camouflage

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Pershing Inspecting Artillery Camouflage (c1918) You may remember an earlier post in which we recalled the day when US President Woodro...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

WW1 Ship Camouflage as Hughesual

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Above Photograph by Steve Ibbitson of British artist Patrick Hughes , holding an Ames rotating trapezoid window. From John Slyce, Patri...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Baseball's Outlawed Camouflaged Bat

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Goose Goslin with his camouflaged baseball bat Above A news photograph (c1932) of Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin , who played lef...

Town & Country Car Camouflage

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Town and country camouflage (1940) The following news article, titled CAMOUFLAGE OF CARS: Must Be Different from Services , appeared in ...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Camouflage Artist | Jan Gordon

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Jan Gordon (1888-1944), née Godfrey Jervis Gordon, was a British author, artist, musician and lecturer. With his wife Cora (Turner) Gordo...

USS Cambria | Camouflaged Ship Model

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USS Cambria ship model Above As of this posting, there is an online listing by Skinner Auctioneers of a scale model of the World War I...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

New Abbott Thayer Camouflage Exhibit

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New Abbott Thayer exhibit in Washington DC Above The Army and Navy Club Library Trust Committee, with support from the Smithsonian Inst...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

BBC | World War 1 Dazzle Camouflage

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BBC website on WW1 ship camouflage From a new informative blog post on dazzle ship camouflage at the BBC's iWonder World War One C...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Truly Dazzling WW1 Ship Camouflage

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buy online Above There are countless examples of astonishing dazzle camouflage schemes from World War I (as well as World War II, desp...
Friday, February 7, 2014

The Dazzle Painter | John Everett Revisited

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John Everett (c1918), Lepanto Above We've talked about British painter John Everett before. Last month, we featured the poster that...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

SS Durham Dazzle Camouflage c1919

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Above Port side (top) and starboard side of the SS Durham , an American cargo ship, painted in a dazzle camouflage scheme. The designs...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Everett L. Warner Aerial View of NYC

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Everett L. Warner, New York From a Sea Plane (c1919) Above Everett Longley Warner , New York From a Sea Plane (c1919). Pastel on pap...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

Abbott Thayer, Zebras and Ship Camouflage

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Source Wikimedia Commons Above Photograph of zebras on the Serengeti Plain in Tanzania in 2005. Rudolf Arnheim ( Parables of Sun Lig...
Friday, January 31, 2014

New Book on Military Deception

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Above The cover of one of the latest books on the subject, a wide-ranging massive anthology (586 pp.) of important essays, articles and b...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

WW1 Commonwealth Ship Camouflage

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buy online Above Dazzle-camouflaged British Commonwealth transport ship SS Australford as photographed by Allan C. Green (c1918). Di...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Camouflage Paintings | Pia Dehne

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© Pia Dehne 2011 In the late 1960s, when we first began to write about art and camouflage , there wasn't much interest. But in rece...

WW1 Norwegian Ship Camouflage

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buy online Above Dazzle-camouflaged Norwegian tanker SS Ranella as photographed by Allan C. Green (c1918). Digitally adjusted. Origi...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Dazzle Camouflage House Paint

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WW1 ship camouflage motifs (1919) Above Ship camouflage patterns from Robert G. Skerrett, "How We Put It Over on the Periscope...

Zébrage | Striped Camouflage

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Above WW1 New Zealand passenger cargo ship, SS Tofua, docked at Nelson (c1919) in striped disruptive camouflage, known in French as zébra...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Abbott Thayer's Spartan Funeral

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William Adair © 2013 Above In September 2013, William Adair (of Gold Leaf Studios in Washington DC) visited the environs of American ...

Camouflage Artist | Raymond J. Richardson

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US Navy camoufleurs (1918) Above This is a rare World War 1-era photograph (c1918) of the drafting room at the Design Subsection of th...