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Charles Dana Gibson (September 14, 1867 – December 23, 1944) [1] was an American illustrator who created the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century. He published his illustrations in Life magazine and other major national publications for more than 30 years ...
Charles Dana Gibson. 1867–1944. Charles Dana Gibson was interested in art as a boy while watching his father cut silhouettes; he was born into a wealthy New England family from Roxbury, then a suburb of Boston. An enterprising lad, he started cutting silhouettes himself at eight, and by the time he was twelve, he was selling them at exhibitions.
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Biography. The drawings of American society by Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) defined the age contemporaneously and retrospectively from the 1890s through the early 1900s. His images of women, in particular, were so influential on the development of the American feminine style that the term "Gibson Girls" became part of the lexicon.
Charles Dana Gibson. born Roxbury, MA 1867-died New York City 1944. Illustrator. His "Gibson Girl" was the model of American womanhood in the 1890s and into the 20th century. The stylish, humorous illustrations he created appeared frequently in Life and Harper's.
- September 15, 1867
- December 23, 1944
Charles Dana Gibson (born Sept. 14, 1867, Roxbury, Mass., U.S.—died Dec. 23, 1944, New York, N.Y.) was an artist and illustrator, whose Gibson girl drawings delineated the American ideal of femininity at the turn of the century. The Weaker Sex. The Weaker Sex, illustration by Charles Dana Gibson, c. 1903.
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Charles Dana Gibson. View Charles Dana Gibson’s 226 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available works on paper, paintings, and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist.
This poster advertising the June issue of Scribner’s Magazine highlights the Gibson Girl’s ability to take part in and enjoy strenuous physical activities. Through depictions of young women bicycling, playing tennis and golf, horseback riding, swimming, and the like, Gibson and fellow illustrators helped promote the idea of the athletic girl as fashionable and socially acceptable.
