Word: camoufleurs
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Beginning with a study of aerial photographs, Director Martin and his students will make scale models of buildings, take reconnaissance flights in TWA and Naval Reserve planes. From the No. 1 U. S. camoufleur, Director Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens of the Carnegie Institute's department of fine arts, Director Martin got a general line on the problem. Says Saint-Gaudens, a lieutenant colonel in the Engineers Reserve Corps: "Camouflage is just plain Injun fighting...
...considerable success in disguising airplane factories and flying fields as farms by distorting shadows, building dummy roads. Germany disguised many a new flying field by planting it in crops, laying dummy railroad tracks across the middle to fool high-flying enemy pilots. Another dodge of the 1940 camoufleur is to set up fake flying fields, factories, military posts for enemy bombers to shoot at. France, short on planes and morale, went to the foot of the class in this kind of camouflage. Long on bottle corks, Frenchmen floated millions of them on rivers and canals, figured the Germans would think...
...Ferargil Galleries showed the raw-colored, precise paintings of Georgian Lamar Dodd, one of the South's few good painters. The Boyer Galleries showed the kaleidoscopic water colors of Nathaniel Dirk, a camoufleur in World War I. In the Bonestell Gallery, Frenchman Jean Charlot, a founding father of the famed Mexican school, exhibited deceptively simple pictures of broad, squat peons and solemn babies. The Downtown Gallery had as fine a first one-man show as a crowded season has seen-Julian Levis serene, spacious paintings of the seaside...