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"The
Gibson Girls"
 Charles
Dana Gibson was born September 14th, 1867 in Roxbury, MA.
The art style he invented epitomized the image we know as
the Gibson Girl. His drawings depicted the vital and
interesting new woman of the turn of the century. She was
fun loving, carefree and intelligent and you could see this
very plainly in Gibson's art.
The marketing of the
Gibson Girl image lasted for twenty years. It was found on
plates, calendars, ashtrays, pillow cases, tablecloths,
fans, souvenirs and even wall paper. Even in today's
society, her image is very collectible. You can find her in
coffee table books and paper dolls at Amazon.com
By the 1890's, Gibson was working for all the major
publications in New York: The Century, Harper's Monthly,
Weekly and Bazaar and he was still doing his weekly drawings
for Life.
After WW I ended and with the death of his dear friend and
mentor, John Mitchell, Gibson replaced him as editor of Life
Magazine. The world was changing and the Gibson Girl was
about to be replaced by the image of the Flapper. However,
this gave Gibson the time to pursue his interest in oil
painting. Gibson died in 1944, but not before he'd seen his
image of the Gibson girl portrayed in many Hollywood movies.
The US Postal Service chose
a Gibson Girl image for a stamp to showcase the early
nineteen hundreds.
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2006 Darna Michie
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