Sunday, July 17, 2022

exhibition video / National Maritime Museum in Brest

›
Nearly five years ago, we blogged about an exhibition on WWI ship camouflage at the National Maritime Museum in Brest, France. I posted twi...

lowly looking car made quite snappy by paint & brush

›
AUTO GOSSIP in The Times (Munster IN), February 2, 1920, p. 6— Old Man Snodgrass, of the Auto Customs Shop, is the adeptest camouflage art...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

charts explaining the purpose of WWI ship camouflage

›
Cover image showing Everett L. Warner An odd and totally unexpected find: I’ve run across a person named Robert Gregory Gifford (1894-1962)...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

real camouflage would not be visible in a photograph

›
Emmett Watson (c1932) Above Cover of Railroad Stories magazine, January 1932, supposedly showing the camouflage of an Allied railroad engi...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

taken round back the warehouse and painted brown

›
Above One of the slides from a talk I’ve given on the Pre-Raphaelite artists of the 19th century, showing how John Everett Millais made u...
Monday, July 11, 2022

grew out of his interests in color and interior design

›
William Andrew Mackay We’ve known about New York ship camoufleur William Andrew Mackay for decades, having researched his life extensively....
Sunday, July 10, 2022

standing behind and above, painting faces on his head

›
Painting by Frederick Rhodes Sisson (c1920-21) There is a brief article in The Art Digest (February 15, 1943, p. 26) titled Sisson on Camouf...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

informative new online dazzle camouflage source links

›
Beginning in 2018, we published four major essays on aspects of World War I ship camouflage . Shown here are the covers (above) and example...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Courtney Allen / Illustrator, Performer and Camoufleur

›
Courtney Allen There was an American illustrator and performer named Courtney (Charles) Allen (1896-1969), who was also a camouflage artist...
Monday, June 20, 2022

a strange, weird-looking, motley camouflaged convoy

›
Above SS Mona's Queen , a paddle steamer (wearing a dazzle camouflage scheme) at Weymouth, Dorset, UK, c1918 (not one of the ships des...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Arcimboldo, Grandville and William Charles Morris

›
William Charles Morris Aha, I have recently run across the work of an American political cartoonist named William Charles Morris (1874-1940...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Krazy Kat, Worden Wood, and WWI Ship Camouflage

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

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