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Philip Little

Philip Little (1857 - 1942) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Philip Little is known for Coastal-urban landscape painting, etching, camouflage art.

Philip Little contributed to camouflage during World War I. This is verified in the Boston Sunday Globe (September 9, 1917, p. 38) in a news article by (Globe art critic) A.J. Philpott titled IN CAMOUFLAGE WAR MAKING DECEPTION INTO A FINE ART. Near the end of the article is the following note:

"Philip Little, the Salem artist, who paints both landscapes and marines and who is one of the foremost painters in the country, recently experimented with camouflage on a boat with very remarkable success. It is men of his stamp who should be called on for service in this new emergency."

It is also confirmed by a passage in an unpublished and undated typescript by American artist and US Navy camoufleur Everett L. Warner ("Summary of Points to be Made in a General Lecture on Marine Camouflage") in which Warner mentions that two photographs of camouflage schemes, designed by Philip Little, wer   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8011 characters.]  Artist bio

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Research resources

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