Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Krazy Kat, Worden Wood, and WWI Ship Camouflage

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George Herriman (1904) Of late I have been reading a book about the American cartoonist and comic artist George Herriman , best known as the...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

exhibition of hypothetical ship camouflage patterns

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hypothetical camouflage schemes Opening soon on May 24, 2022 (in the coming week) is a major gallery exhibition at the University of Wiscons...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Picasso on camouflage / we originated it with cubism

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Cook: The Man Who Taught Gertrude Stein to Drive Above Roy R. Behrens , Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Northern Iowa and In...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

chased by Diego Rivera | a spider disguised as a fly

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Above Amedeo Modigliani , Portrait of Diego Rivera (1916). Oil on cardboard. Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Public domain. ••• Ilya E...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

the face of dread / when deception is too much to bear

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Above Agricultural Instruments of Human Sustenance [a visual pun]. Historic engraving detail. ••• Maurice Browne , Too Late to Lament: An A...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

a yankee doodle dante—we crave your condescension

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camouflaged figures Louis Untermeyer , Bygones: The Recollections of Louis Untermeyer . New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1965. Excerpts f...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Solomon Solomon solemnized / two babies not one

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Solomon J. Solomon, Self-Portrait There were two British painters (unrelated) whose family name was Solomon . Both were well-known around th...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

GTA Links to New Gestalt Theory Related Videos

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We were recently pleased to learn that the website for the GTA ( International Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications ) has set up...
Friday, February 18, 2022

WWI-era Scenic Film Camouflage at Lasky Studios

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Above Photograph of Hollywood scenic designer Glen Dunaway (1895-1923), manager at the Lasky Studio in 1920, as published in THE SCENIC AR...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

New Version: Cook taught Gertrude Stein to drive 2026

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https://youtu.be/gPD-IIW_1yA UPDATED BLOG POST on October 13, 2026: The earlier 2022 version of this video talk has been replaced by a much ...
Friday, January 28, 2022

WWI Army Camouflage and Interpreter Richard Peters

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Richard Peters One of the many enjoyments of historical research, regardless of the topic, is to unearth little-known stories about individu...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

British Gestalt Journal / gestalt and camouflage videos

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Links to four videos have been posted on the Features section of the British Gestalt Journal at < https://www.britishgestaltjournal.com...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

the scintillations of your wit, lambent but innoucous

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Above This strikingly-costumed figure (pre-camouflage, but visually “ dazzling ” nevertheless) is extracted from a theatrical poster from 1...
Monday, December 27, 2021

new article on camouflage in current issue of MUSE

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Camouflage article in MUSE Magazine (2022) There may be no limit to the curiosity about camouflage , both natural and man-made—or so it wou...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Zoologist Hugh B. Cott and WWII camouflaged cannon

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In the past we've often blogged about a variety of camouflage called countershading , which was first discussed at length by Abbott H. T...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

metamorphosis / shape shifting from pitcher to pitcher

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Above Anon, Evolution of a Pitcher (1889). Library of Congress. ••• CAMOUFLAGE LIQUOR TO SOLDIERS AROUSES JUDGE NEW YORK , in Boston Globe ...
Friday, December 17, 2021

suicide of WWI illustrator and ship camouflage artist

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Cover design by Arthur Hutchins (1912) As a civilian working for the Emergency Fleet Corporation during World War I, Boston illustrator Art...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Rorschach, klecksography, bigamy, and camouflage

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an essay in The Iowa Source The German word for inkblot is klecks . In the latter half of the 19th century, it was a source of amusement to ...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Massachusetts painter / ship camoufleur Philip Little

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Philip Little (1921) The name of Philip Little (1857-1942) may already be familiar. He was a Massachusetts sea and landscape painter, whose...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

too old for draft Jean-Louis Forain serves nevertheless

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Above Jean-Louis Forain , wartime sketch of a soldier writing a letter home, reproduced in the same news article quoted below. Forain's ...
Monday, November 22, 2021

interview with camouflage scholar Camilla Wilkinson

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In a July 2020 blog post , we shared a major article on World War I dazzle-patterned ship camouflage. It was written by British architect Ca...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Camoufleur John Dwight Bridge and Santa Barbara

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A couple of years ago, we posted our findings about American artist and camoufleur John Dwight Bridge . Now, just a few months ago, a Califo...
Friday, November 12, 2021

pioneering aviator and camoufleur Mittie Taylor Brush

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Above Group photograph of Mary (Mittie) Taylor Brush , with her children. Both she and her artist-husband, George De Forest Brush , were pi...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Margaret Fitzhugh Browne on WWI ship camouflage

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Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, Self-Portrait Above Self Portrait by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne (1884-1972). Browne was a Massachusetts portrait ...