Camoufleur is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Gastr del Sol, released on February 23, 1998 on Drag City. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of...
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A camoufleur or camouflage officer is a person who designed and implemented military camouflage in one of the world wars of the twentieth century. The...
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the Valley" featuring guest Tony Conrad on violin. With the release of Camoufleur in 1998, Gastr del Sol progressed further into the realm of conventional...
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Alister Hardy (category Camoufleurs)
the outbreak of war he instead volunteered for the army, and was made a camoufleur, a camouflage officer. Hardy wrote that he had been equally drawn to science...
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Timothy R. O'Neill (1943 – November 9, 2023) was a U.S. Army officer, professor and camouflage expert, who in 1976 invented Dual-Tex, the first pattern...
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Edward Seago (category Camoufleurs)
Edward Brian Seago, RBA, ARWS, RWS (31 March 1910 – 19 January 1974) was an English artist who painted in both oils and watercolours. The son of a coal...
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Norman Wilkinson (artist) (category Camoufleurs)
a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson invented dazzle painting to protect merchant shipping during...
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Louis Guingot (category Camoufleurs)
member of the École de Nancy (the Nancy School). He was the first French camoufleur in the First World War, credited as the inventor of military camouflage...
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Roland Penrose (category Camoufleurs)
Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE (14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of modern...
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he once again served in the army, he worked not as a surgeon but as a camoufleur. In a lecture he gave on the subject,[when?] he said that "the brilliant...
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Julian Trevelyan (category Camoufleurs)
brown splotches were ineffective as desert camouflage. He and the other camoufleurs, working under Hugh Cott and Geoffrey Barkas, became expert at desert...
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Ivan Konev (category Camoufleurs)
Ivan Stepanovich Konev (Russian: Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев, IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ ˈkonʲɪf]; 28 December 1897 – 21 May 1973) was a Soviet general and...
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Peter Scott (category Camoufleurs)
Sir Peter Markham Scott (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman...
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former World War I camouflage artists, Harold Ledyard Towle (a U.S. Army camoufleur) and McClelland Barclay (who created the Fisher Body ads, and contributed...
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World War II, Calder attempted to join the Marines as a camoufleur (see List of camoufleurs), but was rejected. In 1955 he and Louisa traveled through...
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Charles Allan Gilbert (category Camoufleurs)
Gilbert was an early contributor to animation, and a camouflage artist (or camoufleur) for the U.S. Shipping Board during World War I. Born in Hartford, Connecticut...
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Brian Robb (category Camoufleurs)
Died 1979 (aged 65–66) Education Chelsea School of Art Slade School of Fine Art Known for Illustrator, cartoonist; wartime camoufleur Spouse Barbara Robb...
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Franz Marc (category Camoufleurs)
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was...
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Popp was an integral part of the creation of Gastr Del Sol's 1998 album Camoufleur. In 2003 his collaboration with Japanese singer Eriko Toyoda, entitled...
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Jean-Louis Forain (category Camoufleurs)
Jean-Louis Forain (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lwi fɔʁɛ̃]; 23 October 1852 – 11 July 1931) was a French Impressionist painter and printmaker, working in...
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released by the duo include Crookt, Crackt, or Fly, Upgrade & Afterlife, and Camoufleur. In this period, Grubbs also contributed to other projects, including...
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footballer Geoffrey de Gruchy Barkas (1896–1979), British filmmaker and camoufleur Henry De Gruchy (1898–1952), Australian cricketer Jeanelle de Gruchy,...
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Arthur Lismer (category Camoufleurs)
Arthur Lismer, CC RCA LL.D. (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven and educator. He is known primarily...
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Scenographer/Camouflage Artists Questionnaire" in Ronald Naversen, The Scenographer as Camoufleur. Dissertation. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University, 1989...
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Thomas Hart Benton (painter) (category Camoufleurs)
strongly affected his later style. Later in the war, classified as a "camoufleur", Benton drew the camouflaged ships that entered Norfolk harbor. His work...
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led by Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola, employing artists known as camoufleurs to create schemes such as tree observation posts and covers for guns...
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Solomon Joseph Solomon (category Camoufleurs)
Solomon Joseph Solomon RA RBA (16 September 1860 – 27 July 1927) was a British painter, a founding member of the New English Art Club and member of the...
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Rodrigo Moynihan (category Camoufleurs)
(Herbert George) Rodrigo Moynihan RA (17 October 1910 – 6 November 1990) was an English painter, credited with being a pioneer of abstract painting in...
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Timothy O'Neal (golfer) (born 1972), American golfer Timothy O'Neill (camoufleur) (born 1943), American camouflage expert, designer of MARPAT Tim O'Neal...
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Basil Spence (category Camoufleurs)
Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM OBE RA (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England...
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