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  Charles Dana Gibson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Dana Gibson (September 14, 1867–December 23, 1944) was an American graphic artist, noted for his creation of one of the first pin-up girls, the "Gibson Girl".
The development of the "Gibson Girl" from 1890 and her nationwide fame made Gibson respected and wealthy.
On his passing in 1944, Charles Dana Gibson was interred with his wife in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Gibson studied for two years, before the financial hardship on his family made him decide to go to work so that he could pay his parents back for their generous support.
Gibson was nothing if not determined, and he parlayed his first sale (after celebrating his new professional status with a seventy-five cent chicken pie) into an ever-growing business.
The Gibson Girl was, in the artist's own words, "The American Girl to all the world," even as she raised her new-fangled golf-club and cried "Fore!" She was spunky and sentimental, down-to-earth and aristocratic at the same time.
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 "The Gibson Girl"
Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson Girl was born on September 14, 1867.
Dana was fascinated with this activity, he continued to perform the same operation on his own.
Charles Dana Gibson died of a heart ailment in 1944.
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Charles Dana Gibson was born in Roxbury, Massachusettes.
Charles Dana Gibson is probably most well known for his illustrations of beautiful women from the first quarter of the twentieth century.
During World War I, Gibson was the President of the Society of Illustrators and the leader of a government agency, which produced posters to promote the war effort.
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His "Gibson Girl" was the model of American womanhood in the 1890s and into the 20th century.
Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Charles Dana Gibson attended the Art Students League in New York, studying with Thomas Eakins and Kenyon Cox.
Gibson's name is still remembered for its association with the icon he created, the "Gibson Girl." This idealized, refined upper-middle-class woman became so popular that she was featured in stage plays, and her image was printed on a variety of domestic objects.
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 Gibson, Charles Dana --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Charles Dana Gibson was a virtuoso of the pen, using the manner of Punch's Phil May as a point of departure.
Dana, Charles A. American journalist who became a national figure as editor of the New York Sun.
U.S. illustrator and artist Charles Dana Gibson is remembered as a master of fl-and-white drawing and a skillful portrayer of society life.
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 Charles Dana Gibson Caricature Biography
Gibson was born 14 September, 1867, in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Gibson studied with Augustus Saint Gaudens and attended Julian's in Paris.
Gibson's drawings chronicled American high society in New York and Boston, where old aristocratic families mingled with each other at the exclusion of newcomers.
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 The Gibson Girl...The American Glamour Girl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The creator of the 'Gibson girl' ideal type was American illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, born on September 14, 1867 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Charles met Irene Langhorne, a social belle from Virginia, during one of her visits to New York.
Charles retired in 1936 and died in New York City on December 23, 1944.
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 Charles Gibson Art Gallery
The Gibson Girl was, at once, a series of illustrations, a "look", an influence on fashion and publications for 20 years, and even a doll modeled on the look; the Victorian "glamour girl".
Massachusetts born Gibson was an acclaimed artist in oils, writer, and master artist in fl and white drawing where he was known for his skillful, somewhat satirical portrayals of society life.
The original inspiration for the Gibson girl was apparently the Paris-originated mannish, tailored suits for women of the late 1800s.
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 100 Years of Illustration : The Gibson Girl: Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
The Gibson Girl was created by Charles Dana Gibson, one of the many illustrators selling their work to publishers of periodicals in Manhttan in the 1890s.
Gibson was fortunate enough to be sent at high school age to the Art Students League in New York City where Thomas Eakins and William Merrit Chase taught.
Charles Gibson is believed to have personally given this drawing to my grandfather.
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 The Gibson Girl
With her hair piled atop her head and a waist so tiny as to defy belief, the Gibson Girl represented a serene self-confidence that could surmount any problem.
The envy of all who knew her, the Gibson Girl remained aloof of her surroundings but not to the extent of haughtiness.
The Gibson Girl and the Gibson Man in some ways represent the "Barbie and Ken" dolls of the early 1900s as icons of popular Culture.
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 Gibson, Charles Dana. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
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.
Pipp (1899), The Americans (1900), A Widow and Her Friends (1902), The Social Ladder (1902), and The Gibson Book (1906).
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 Charles Dana Gibson ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Charles Dana Gibson, London (New York: Charles Scribner*s Sons, 1897), 1897
Charles Dana at the New York Sun, 1897
Born in 1939 in Louisville Kentucky, David H. Gibson is a Dallas businessman turned photographer who learned his craft through self-direction and a series of workshops.
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 Contributors: Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson is probably best known for his drawings of beautiful women known as “Gibson Girls.” The “Gibson Girl” was everybody’s sweetheart, and was portrayed on stage, linens, chinaware and silver spoons.
At his peak he was one of the highest paid illustrators of his time and contributed regularly to Life, Collier’s Weekly and other magazines.
During World War I, Gibson was president of the Society of Illustrators and was the head of the division of Pictorial Publicity under the Federal Committee of Public Information.
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 CHARLES DANA GIBSON - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES DANA GIBSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Gibson Girl, stood for a type of healthy, vigorous, beautiful and refined young womanhood.
So popular was one series, The Adventures of Mr Pipp, that a successful play was modelled on it.
In 1906, although besieged with commissions, Gibson withdrew from illustrative work, determining to devote himself to portraiture in oil, in which direction he had already made some successful experi.
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Gibson received his training from the Art Students League of New York and under the architect, George Post.
Gibson’s gift for gentle satire, particularly among the social elite, was tremendously influential.
Charles Dana Gibson was a full member of the prestigious National Academy of Design, as well as the Society of Illustrators, the American Federation of Artists, the Artists Guild of Authors and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
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 Charles Dana Gibson Online
Charles Dana Gibson in Commercial Galleries and Auction Houses
Charles Dana Gibson at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Theodore Roosevelt, drawing, 1898
All images and text on this Charles Dana Gibson page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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His pictures of women set the "Gibson Girl" style that so many women sought to copy in the years preceeding the first world war.
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Synopsis: The portrait of the Gibson Girl made the lovely young woman an icon and her illustrator famous in the 1890s.
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 Gibson, Charles Dana --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
His renderings of young women, known as Gibson girls, defined and contributed to the American…
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He used the pen as he pleased, sometimes in a direct descriptive manner, sometimes with colouristic suggestion, sometimes almost anti-graphically.
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 Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1867.
A talented artist, Gibson sold his first drawing to Life Magazine when he was only 19.
Gibson eventually obtained a full-time post with Life Magazine, where he became famous for his drawings of American high society.
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 The American Experience | America 1900 | People & Events
She was a figment of the imagination and product of the pen of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson.
Often she was accompanied by the Gibson Man. Together, these two archetypes of femininity and masculinity instructed a whole generation on matters of dress and attitude.
From Ivy League dormitories to rude country cabins, men and woman alike looked to Massachusetts native Charles Dana Gibson's creations for inspiration and illustration on how to conduct themselves as forward-moving, optimistic, witty, and urbane modern Americans.
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 Gibson Girls by Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson Girl
We are proud to bring you the work of Charles Dana Gibson, famed illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th century.
More than simply the creator of the Gibson Girl, C. Gibson captured the timeless aspects of humanity that could be found in his - or any time - in a pose, a look, or quiet joke.
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