Tuesday, September 29, 2020

The gift of seeing resemblances

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Jacky Bowring , “Revealing Concealment: The Strange Case of the MoMA Roof Garden” in Thresholds (MIT Press). Fall 2005, p. 17— Camouflage ...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Everett Warner and WWII Disruptive Ship Camouflage

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Reproduced below is an extremely rare photograph of a small team of US Navy ship camouflage artists during World War II. In the center fore...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Steve Morris | World War I Ship Camouflage Plans

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In recent weeks, we've been very fortunate to have found out about the dazzle ship camouflage images of a Washington DC-area graphic des...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

More on WWI camoufleur Frederick Alexander Pawla

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At the end of May 2019, we posted a lengthy article on British-born artist Frederick Alexander Pawla (1876-1964), who was in charge of the ...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

British Steamer: Is she coming or going, which Is it?

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FREIGHTER RAMS AND SINKS SUBMARINE   in The Austin American (Austin TX), May 3, 1918— An Atlantic Port, May 2—A British freight steamer fre...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Frenchmen shore is wonders with a bucket o' paint

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Fletcher Chenault , “The Camel Flagger” in Collier’s Magazine (March 30, 1918), p. 24— …“I see by the papers,” Lige was saying, “whar’bouts...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Fighting the U-Boat with Pattern, Disruption and Paint

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Waldemar Kampffert, Fighting the U-Boat with Paint: How American and English artists taught sailors to dazzle the U-boat in Popular Science...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

1918 pandemic spitting image | deja flu all over again

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Above A poster issued by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (Philadelphia), as a means of controlling the sprea...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Camilla Wilkinson article on WWI dazzle camouflage

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HMS Osterley (c1918) Above Near the end of World War I, British ship camouflage (called " dazzle painting ") increasingly ...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Camoufleurs Maurice L. Freedman & Frank B. Masters

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Launching of SS Everglades at Tampa FL, 1918 (AI digital color) The United States entered World War I, on the side of the Allies, in 19...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Don Jules Camou | Ye Olde Checkerboard Technique

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Full-page article on Don Jules Camou (1932) Five years ago, I ran across a news article that claimed that modern camouflage was originat...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Seven to seventy | Edward Simmons looking back

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Edward Simmons, Girl Reading (1893) Edward Simmons , From Seven to Seventy: Memories of a Painter and a Yankee . New York: Harpers, 192...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

There is much more to know about Walt McDougall

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Everglades Poster (©2018) Roy R. Behrens American cartoonist Walt McDougall (1858-1938) was the subject of the previous post , in which ...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

The wizard of oz becomes schooled on camouflage

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Walt McDougall (1904), Land of Oz comic page There is no denying that American artist Walt McDougall (1858-1938) was an extraordinary c...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Earl B. Wooden | Hollywood designer and camoufleur

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Earl B. Wooden (1893-1952) was a Kansas-born scenic film designer, who (as a "set decorator" and "set dresser") produ...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

Dustin Keller | Camouflaged household appliances

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Dustin Keller / Lozenge camouflage toaster Ala serendipity, we've run across an online site called Keller's Blog on which a C...