The Cotton-Tail Rabbit among Dry Grasses and Leaves Gerald H. Thayer (American, 1883-1935). The Cotton-Tail Rabbit among Dry Grasses and Leaves, 1904. Opaque watercolor with touches of translucent watercolor and graphite on smooth-textured paper-surfaced pulpboard, 18 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. ( x cm). The artist-naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) used assistants, including his wife, Emma, and his son Gerald, to help illustrate his book on animal camouflage, Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909). This meticulously rendered watercolor demonstrates “countershading,” by
The Cotton-Tail Rabbit among Dry Grasses and Leaves Gerald H. Thayer (American, 1883-1935). The Cotton-Tail Rabbit among Dry Grasses and Leaves, 1904. Opaque watercolor with touches of translucent watercolor and graphite on smooth-textured paper-surfaced pulpboard, 18 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. ( x cm). The artist-naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) used assistants, including his wife, Emma, and his son Gerald, to help illustrate his book on animal camouflage, Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909). This meticulously rendered watercolor demonstrates “countershading,” by which an animal such as the cottontail rabbit seems to disappear against the background of its natural habitat. Although many of Thayer’s theories sparked controversy within the scientific community, some were applied to military camouflage in World War II. American Art 1904
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