Charles Dana Gibson - biographical facts
Charles Dana Gibson was an American illustrator and artist born in 1867, one
of the greatest living masters of black and white, famous as the creator
of the «Gibson Girl,» the characteristic American society woman. Mr.
Gibson was born at Roxbury, Mass., and studied at the Art Students'
League, New York, under Saint-Gaudens in Paris, and in London and
Munich. His work had appeared in Life, The Century, Harper's, Scribner's
and other magazines. Mr. Gibson had a strong dramatic and strong
humorous sense, and his characters are the everyday people of the
courts, hotels, boulevards, parks, theatres and clubs of America. Much
of his work had been published in album form, and includes Drawings,
Sketches and Cartoons, Pictures of People, The Social Ladder, The
Americans and others. The titles are very suggestive of the nature of
Mr. Gibson's best work.
