At the turn of the twentieth century, Charles Dana Gibson\'s pen-and-ink Drawings of the American Girl -- now remembered as the Gibson Girl -- became the national ideal of femininity.
A rich source of royalty-free art, it offers graphic artists, fashion designers, social historians, and nostalgia lovers a lovely and accurate chronicle of a bygone era..
This gallery features more than a hundred carefully selected images from vintage editions.
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Several of Gibson\'s common man illustrations provide a contrast, along with a section devoted to one of the artist\'s best-known and most beloved characters, the curmudgeonly Mr.
Sentimental, humorous, and often gently satirical, these images portray the Gibson Girl at the theater, in the drawing room, flirting and courting, vacationing at the beach, and engaging in other genteel pursuits.
This collection of his images of youthful, dynamic women offers an informative and amusing reflection of the era\'s social life.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Charles Dana Gibson\'s pen-and-ink Drawings of the American Girl -- now remembered as the Gibson Girl -- became the national ideal of femininity
