Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944)

Book I of a two-volume set of Charles Dana Gibson's marvelous cartoons depicting high society. Gibson was America's most popular artist-illustrator at the time, rivalling Maxfield Parrish. The beauty of his drawings remains sublime, and is nearly matched by the accuracy of his observations of high society. These two volumes are marred by the fact that about one out of ten drawings were scribbled upon with crayon by a long-ago young hooligan, whom I sincerely hope has since met his just desserts.

The selection of illustrations for this book come from the height of Charles Gibson's popularity. His American Girl, which would later be called the Gibson Girl, became both a picture of contemporary fashion and life and it's standard as well. The gay '90's and the turn of the century leading up to the First World War was a time of innocence and hope and industrial growth. After the war had spent it's current generation, Gibson's work lost its popularity. However his art is still here as a show more picture of time past and as an example of what we had once attained as a nation. show less

The 9th book in a regular series of book collections of Charles Dana Gibson's marvelous cartoons depicting contemporary society people and their foibles. Gibson was justly famed for his Gibson Girl, but his ability to lampoon the comic aspects of the high society denizens he usually drew is often overlooked.

A wonderful collection of illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson and his "Gibson Girl," a fashion forward damsel in Belle Epoque America.