Friday, December 15, 2017

New and Improved Personal Camouflage Methods

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Bruce Bairnsfather (c1918) Above A classic cartoon (c1918) of a dazzle-patterned World War I soldier by British cartoonist and humorist...

Grandson of John Everett Millais as Camoufleur

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Millais, Christ in the Carpenter's Shop (c1850) Above A slide from one of my lectures on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in a univ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Norman Wilkinson | Dazzle Plans for US Ships 14C

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Type 14 Design C British Ship Camouflage (c1917) Above Proposal for a British "dazzle camouflage" scheme (showing both sides ...

Camouflage They Put On Boats In War Time

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Above A World War I-era clothing advertisement as published in The South Bend News-Times (South Bend IN), December 28, 1917, p. 3. ••• ...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Camouflaged Cow Conundrums

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Above One of the drawings from a book of spurious mimicry by American physicist Robert Williams Wood , titled How To Tell The Birds From ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Cubicow | The Camouflaged Cow Puzzle

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The Cubicow (1913) Above The first major introduction of cubism and other varieties of Modern-era visual art to the American public is ...
Friday, December 8, 2017

CAMO MANIA | New Disruptive Patterns in Design

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Above Cover of a richly designed pictorial book on fashion (clothing and otherwise) in relation to disruptively-patterned camouflage, wid...

Norman Wilkinson | Dazzle Plans for US Ships 2B

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Above Proposal for a British "dazzle camouflage" scheme (showing both sides of the same ship), designed by UK artist and camo...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Camoufleur Everett Warner at Griswold Museum

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We are indebted to Jim Dodge for alerting us to a current exhibition called World War I and the Lyme Art Colony at the Florence Griswol...

Have You No Shame? | Politics as Camouflage

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Above Editorial cartoon with the caption “Will He Get By?” (c1919) by John Harmon Cassel, originally published in the New York Evening Wo...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

Norman Wilkinson | Dazzle Plans for US Ships 2CX

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Above Proposal for a British "dazzle camouflage" scheme (showing both sides of ship), probably designed by UK artist and camouf...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Native Americans | War Paint as Camouflage

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Edward Curtis, Photograph of Medicine Crow Above Edward Curtis , Portrait photograph of Medicine Crow ( c1905). Public domain. Library ...