Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Dazzle Ship Camouflage | Stephen Hobbs

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Disruptive Ship Camouflage © Stephen Hobbs (2015) Above We've featured the camouflage-related work of South African artist St...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Abbott Thayer and Background-Picturing

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Background-picturing experiment with G.H. Thayer painting Above Roy R. Behrens (©2015), an experiment using Adobe Photoshop software in...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

New Book on Camouflage Cultures | 2015

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Cover of Camouflage Cultures (2015), available now The latest book on art and camouflage is an anthology of the papers that were fe...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Futurist Togs For Sniper Camouflage (1917)

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US proposal for disruptively-patterned sniper suit (1917) Above This photograph of an American soldier dressed in a disruptively patter...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Hunters Masquerade as Cow (1578)

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US Patent No. 586,145 (1897) Above Patent drawings for US Patent No. 586,145, titled "Hunting Decoy," as devised by J. Sievers...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Joseph Harker | Dracula Meets Camouflage

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Portrait of Joseph Harker (n.d.) In the San Francisco Chronicle , on Sunday, May 11, 1919, a full-page article appeared on various aspec...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

More A.E. Hayward Camouflage Cartoons

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A.E. Hayward, September 27, 1917, p. 22 In an earlier post , we talked about American cartoonist  A.E. (Alfred Earl) Hayward (1884-1939)...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Trojan Horse Camouflage | Shakespeare Too

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Sheboygan Press , January 1, 1918, artist unknown Above A cartoon illustration on the historic antecedents of World War I camouflage as...

William Jennings Bryan's Camouflage 1918

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William Jennings Bryan (1908) Above William Jennings Bryan during 1908 presidential campaign. •••  (Anon, CAMOUFLAGE BY MRS. [WIL...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

A.E Hayward's Camouflage Cartoons

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Above Cartoon by A.E. (Alfred Earl) Hayward (1884-1939), from his daily series “The Padded Cell,” in the Philadelphia Public Ledger on Oc...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

What Is Camouflage? | René Bache

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René Bache, "What Is 'Camouflage'?" (1918) Above Full-page newspaper article titled “What Is Camouflage?” by René Bac...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

David Bower | Camouflaged Room Interiors

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All images © David Bower We've known about and admired the three-dimensional "camouflaged rooms" of Chicago-area artist Da...

Camouflage: Making a Cannon Look Like a Cow

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Above We recently found this delightful cartoon (which we've restored and reconstructed) in an old issue of the East Oregonian (Pendl...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Camouflage Artist | Eliot O'Hara

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Eliot O'Hara, Duval Street Above Recently we ran across a reproduction of an on-site watercolor painting by American artist Eliot O...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Teddy Bear Camouflage

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US Patent No 285,951 Above One of several drawings submitted for US Patent No. 285,951 , titled "Stuffed Toy Bear," invented ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Eric Sloane | Camouflage and Comic Books

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Eric Sloane (1942), Camouflage Simplified We've talked about American artist Eric Sloane (1905-1985) in an earlier blog , specifica...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

History of Camouflage Comic Book

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Camouflage comic © John Kramer Thanks to Claudia Covert , Special Collections Librarian at the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Ames Room and Chair Demonstration

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Adelbert Ames II (1880-1955) was an American lawyer and artist who was known for his discoveries in optical physiology and perceptual psy...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Aaron Hegert | Thayer's Concealing Coloration

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Gerald H. Thayer (c1909), Male Ruffed Grouse in Forest When the first edition of Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom was publis...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Laura Levin on Camouflage & Performance Art

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Above The dust jacket of a new important book : Laura Levin, Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage and the Art of Blending In . London: Palg...

Camouflage Skirts: A Sartorial Disaster

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Rebecca Palmer (1884), Crazy Quilt Above An example of a crazy quilt , made with silk and velvet by Rebecca Palmer (1884). Collection...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Was Credit Camouflaged? | Roosevelt Murals

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William Andrew Mackay booklet on Roosevelt murals (1944) Here's yet another post about American muralist William Andrew Mackay , who...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Bittern Camouflage

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Above An American Bittern in camouflage stance in the Myaka River State Park, Florida, as photographed by Sabine Rodens (2006), from Wi...

Michael Torlen Remembers Hoyt L. Sherman

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Photographs © Richard Koenig Above We will never cease to be amazed by the illusionistic photographs (he calls them " photograph...