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Charles Dana Gibson

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

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... Read more

Gibson, Charles Dana
Gibson, Charles Dana (1867–1944), New York illustrator...during the 1890s for his so‐called Gibson Girl drawings, glorifying American womanhood...to Collier's and other magazines. The Gibson Girl was featured in his series The Education... Read more

Gibson, Charles Dana
Gibson, Charles Dana ( b Roxbury, Mass., 14 Sept. 1867; d New York, 23 Dec. 1944). American illustrator and painter. He studied at the Art Students...Harpers , and Life . He specialized in scenes of fashionable social life and achieved immortality with his creation of the ‘ Gibson ... Read more

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