Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Edoardo Dotto / on camouflage & mimicry as duplicity

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online link Recently I became acquainted with the writings of a professor of architecture, named Edoardo Dotto , at the University of Catani...
Friday, July 26, 2024

an excellent account of the word origin of camouflage

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Philip Hale, music critic There were at least two prominent people named Philip Hale , who were contemporaries and both from New England. Ph...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Thomas Casilear Cole / WWI ship camouflage artist

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Thomas Casilear Cole In the mid-19th century, there was a prominent trend in painting called the Hudson River School , which consisted of a ...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

a checkered tablecloth / the man Picasso hated most

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Juan Gris , Still Life with Checkered Tablecloth (1915) Above An especially masterful painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris , titled Still ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

not a camoufleur / Maine artist Willard W. Cummings

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Willard W. Cummings So, who actually served as a wartime camoufleur? It’s not always easy to answer. For example, I recently ran across publ...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

he painted camouflage on the sides of trucks & trains

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Eisenstein and others in Japan Above Such an astonishing photograph. Taken in the 1920s in Japan, this is a detail of a photograph of a lar...
Friday, July 12, 2024

as outlandish as a cow / one horn black the other blue

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USS Federal in dazzle camouflage scheme, 1918 Francis McCullagh , Control of Food Gives Soviet Power Over Its Followers , in Philadelphia I...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

American ship camoufleur / Henry Wadsworth Moore

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Henry Wadsworth Moore Recently I’ve run across multiple references to a World War I American ship camoufleur named Henry Wadsworth Moore (1...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Chalk Talk / Iowa's Herb Hake Meets Old Man Camouf

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Above Herbert V. Hake (1903-1980) was a well-known faculty member who taught scenic design in the theatre department at Iowa State Teacher...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

camouflaged autos are the latest bane of speed cops

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disruptive shadows cast on jeeps THAT AUTO HARD TO SEE? MAYBE IT’S CAMOUFLEUR’S WORK . The Toledo News-Bee (Toledo OH), October 19, 1917— C...

perhaps the origin of the WWI phrase Easter Egg Fleet

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unidentified WWI ship in dazzle camouflage (AI color) Joseph Husband , On the Coast of France: The Story of the United States Naval Forces i...

wartime use of plant material in relation to camouflage

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WWI French observation post in dead tree LITTLE SILVER MAN TO DISCUSS CAMOUFLAGE in Red Bank Register (Red Bank NJ), October 29, 1942, p. ...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

first camoufleur / screens to conceal roads in France

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Above This drawing is in the collection of the University of Victoria Library in British Columbia, Canada. It is from a two-volume series o...
Friday, July 5, 2024

a claim about the origin of WWI US ship camouflage

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Lake Pachuta duing WWI Above Photograph of USS Lake Pachuta of Saginaw from an advertisement for Saginaw Shipbuilding Co. in International...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Clayter, Sullivan & other Pittsburgh Navy camoufleurs

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Frederic C. Clayter / 1918 Above Many years ago, when we first wrote about the team of camouflage artists who designed US Navy ship camouf...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Herter's mural in Paris / American Camouflage Corps

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Albert Herter mural at the Gare de Paris-Est We’ve talked about the Herter family before . The family was descended from the well-known Hert...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

philosopher Monroe Beardsley / cubistic camouflage

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decanter and goblet / Monroe Beardsley Monroe C. Beardsley , Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism . NY: Harcourt Brace and Wo...
Monday, June 24, 2024

or is this outlandish camouflage story so much bull?

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Wild West bull fight poster Despite our enormous dislike of killing animals for sport (so-called game hunting included), we have decided to ...

dazzle-camouflaged ship departs from French port

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Above Dazzle camouflage scheme applied to a World War I-era American ship (possibly a hospital ship), departing from a French port (c1918)...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

John W.K. Berrian / Tiffany designer and camoufleur

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Berrian Draft Registration There are ten stained glass windows , made by Tiffany and Company , at the Second Reformed Church in Hackensack ...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

free online sources of camouflage-related research

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germ strainer, natural mask & checkered camouflage

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Above World War I railway mounted artillery, with checkerboard-patterned camouflage . Source unknown. ••• It was in 1918 that the great “S...
Monday, June 17, 2024

disruptive rattlesnake camouflage / to be discontinued

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Magazine ad for Vulcabeston (1919) ZEBRA STRIPES OFF CHOW CARTS: Solid Colors Will Replace Rattlesnake Trimmings to Economize Paint . Stars ...