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CHARLES DANA GIBSON (1867- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 942 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:DANA See also:GIBSON (1867- )  , See also:American artist and illustrator, was See also:born at See also:Roxbury, See also:Massachusetts, on the 14th of See also:September 1867 . After a See also:year's study at the See also:schools of the See also:Art Students' See also:League, he began with some modest little drawings for the humorous weekly See also:Life . These he followed up with more serious See also:work, and soon made a See also:place for himself as the delineator of the American girl, at various occupations, particularly those out of doors . These obtained an enormous See also:vogue, being after-wards published in See also:book See also:form, See also:running through many See also:editions . The " See also:Gibson Girl . " stood for a type of healthy, vigorous, beautiful and refined See also:young womanhood . Some book illustrations followed, notably for The Prisoner of Zenda . He was imitated by many of the younger draughtsmen, copied by amateurs, and his popularity was shown in his engagement by See also:Collier's Weekly to furnish weekly for a year a See also:double See also:page, receiving for the fifty-two drawings the sum of $5o,000, said to have been the largest amount ever paid to an illustrator for such a See also:commission . These drawings covered various See also:local themes and were highly successful, being See also:drawn with See also:pen and See also:ink with masterly facility and See also:great directness and See also:economy of See also:line . So popular was one See also:series, " The Adventures of Mr Pipp," that a successful See also:play was modelled on it . In 1906, although besieged with commissions, Gibson withdrew from illustrative work, determining to devote himself to See also:portraiture in oil, in which direction he had already made some successful experiments; but in a few years he again returned to See also:illustration .

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