The Gibson Girl
"The Weaker Sex II" and "Studies in Expression at a Fashionable Funeral"
Drawings
By: Charles Dana Gibson
Date: 1903
Source: Gibson, Charles Dana. "The Weaker Sex II." Collier's Weekly, July 4, 1903, 12–13; "Studies in Expression at a Fashionable Funeral." Life, October 22, 1903, 388–389.
About the Artist: Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944) was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He attended the Arts Students League in Manhattan for two years and then began the initially slow process of achieving commercial success. He sold his first pen and ink drawing in 1886 to the editor of Life magazine. By 1890, Gibson was working for all the major publications in New York. He remains famous today for his creation of the fashionable Gibson Girl.
Introduction
The unique Gibson style seemed to develop following an extended trip to Paris and...
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