biografía de Charles Dana GIBSON (1867-1944)

Lugar de nacimiento: Roxbury, MA

Direcciones: NYC/Dark Harbor, ME

Profesión: Illustrator, painter

Estudios: ASL; with Saint Gaudens; Académie Julian, Paris, 1890.

Exposiciones: PAFA, 1893; SNBA, 1894; Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (medal); AIC, 1913.

Asociaciones: Cornish (NH) Colony; SI 1902; NIAL; Portrait Painters; ANA; NA 1932.

Comentarios: A commentator on the social life of his time, he was most noted for his beautiful drawings of women, making it a widely recognized compliment to be considered looking like a "Gibson Girl." He was the highest paid illustrator of his time, receiving a four year contract by Collier's in 1904. He became owner and editor of the old Life after WWI, giving up drawing entirely in favor of painting in the early 1930s. Author/illustrator: Sketches in London; People of Dickens; Education of Mr. Pipp.

Fuentes: WW40; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 346; W & R Reed, The Illustrator in America, 32-33; Falk, Exh. Record Series.