Charles Dana Gibson

Charles Dana Gibson 1867-1944, American illustrator, b. Roxbury, Mass., studied at the Art Students League and in Paris. His work for Life, Century, Harper's, Scribner's, Collier's Weekly, and other magazines established him as a leading illustrator and delineator of aristocratic social ideals, most notably that of the ideal woman who came to be known as the Gibson Girl. His incisive drawings of fashionable life often convey both humor and understanding. He illustrated numerous books, notably Anthony Hope's Prisoner of Zenda and R. H. Davis's Soldiers of Fortune. Among the books of his drawings are The Education of Mr. Pipp (1899), The Americans (1900), A Widow and Her Friends (1902), The Social Ladder (1902), and The Gibson Book (1906).

Gibson, Charles Dana (1867–1944), New York illustrator, obtained a great vogue during the 1890s for his so‐called Gibson Girl drawings, glorifying American womanhood and reflecting the refined gaiety of fashionable society. He was a regular contributor to Life, which he edited for a time, and to Collier's and other magazines. The Gibson Girl was featured in his series The Education of Mr. Pipp (1899), which inspired a popular play of the same title (1905) by Augustus Thomas. He published several books of his drawings, and appealed to the period's romantic and sentimental tastes in his drawings for books by Richard Harding Davis and other popular authors.