CAMOUFLAGE CONCEALS UNSIGHTLY WATER TANK (Jun, 1936)
Wow, if I hadn’t read the headline I would never have known it was there!
CAMOUFLAGE CONCEALS UNSIGHTLY WATER TANK
Members of the famous art colony at Provincetown on Cape Cod, Mass., recently redecorated a local water standpipe so that it no longer constituted an eyesore to the community. Following a carefully planned camouflage scheme, the black water tank was repainted a light blue and then skillfully covered with a patchwork of other colors.
What water tank?
you mean that tall cow over there?
Camouflage isn’t the dead-on word: “soften” or “de-starkify” would have been more accurate. I think it’s a terrific way for whimsical doodlers to lighten things up. Why not have polka-dotted fire hydrants, and swirl-striped bus-sign poles, for instance? I wish some doodlers could be commissioned to camouflage some of the stark, self-important public art works that are being strewn around.