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| Sheet music illustration | Albert Barbelle (1919) |
Thanks to camouflage scholar
Claudia Covert at the Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design, we are now aware of the work of an American illustrator named
Albert (Wilfred) Barbelle (1887-1957). It was Claudia who alerted us to an illustration by Barbelle of a
dazzle-painted World War I ship on the cover of the music for
Down the Lane and Home Again (1919), reproduced above. In the 1930s, he drew the lead character for
the first Walt Disney book about Mickey Mouse. Beyond that, we've since located a sheet music cover by Barbelle (for
Baby's Prayer Will Soon Be Answered (c1919)) in which he again includes a
dazzle-camouflaged ship (shown here).
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| Sheet music illustration | Albert Barbelle (1919) |
Pertinent to
ship camouflage (if not to Barbelle) we have also happened upon the sheet music for a
Camouflage One Step (1917), for which the illustrator was
Roger de Valerio (1886-1951), a prolific French designer who created more than 2,000 sheet music covers.
As you may recall,
one of our earlier posts featured yet another example of camouflage-themed sheet music for
Camouflage: A Soldier's Song (1918).
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| Sheet music illustration | Roger de Valerio (1917) |
