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The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. [1]
Gibson girl, 1910. Charles Gibson’s illustrations made women across the world strive to match and follow the idealized image, creating a national beauty standard for American women. The Gibson Girls gained instant recognition.
Back to Nature. With casual grace, two elegantly dressed young women repose on the rocky ledges of a rugged mountainside. The hikers who hail or wave to one another frame the central pair and animate the expansive scene.
From the 1890s until World War I, the glamorous Gibson Girl set the standard for beauty, fashion, and manners, bringing her creator unrivaled professional and popular success. Gibson's artistic skills and prolific output meshed beautifully with the then high-volume demand for magazine illustrations.
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.
Modeling how to dress, stand, sit, present oneself, and interact with others, the Gibson Girl set the standard for feminine beauty and behavior from the 1890s until World War I. In his work, Gibson drew from professional models, family, and friends.
“The Gibson Girl and Her America: The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson” This collection of Gibson's images of youthful, dynamic women offers an informative and amusing reflection of the era's social life.
Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944) was an American graphic artist famed for his thousands of drawings of the Gibson Girl, his image of the young, independent, beautiful, and socially confident young American woman, created at the turn of the 20th century.
First appearing in published illustrations in the late 1800s, the Gibson girl was the creation of American artist Charles Dana Gibson (1867 – 1944). Gibson's art depicted the fashionable upper-middle-class society of his time, particularly a certain type of modern young woman.
Artist and illustrator Charles Dana Gibson creates an image of the ideal American Girl, setting the standard of feminine beauty that endured for decades. Gibson’s eponymous female character, the “Gibson Girl,” becomes popularly known throughout the United States as her look was widely emulated.