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Gibson Girl, created 1898 Their First Quarrel, 1914. Peddling his pen-and-ink sketches, Gibson sold his first work in 1886 to Life magazine, founded by John Ames Mitchell and Andrew Miller. It featured general interest articles, humor, illustrations, and cartoons. His works appeared weekly in the popular national magazine for more than 30 years.
An iconic Gibson Girl portrait by its creator, Charles Dana Gibson, circa 1891 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]
Much more like today's New Yorker than the Life of the later 20th century, Mitchell's magazine discovered and encouraged many fine writers and artists at the turn of the century, such as Charles Dana Gibson, the illustrator who created the Gibson Girl. It covered the literary scene as well as political and social issues.
Edmund Marion Ashe (1867-1941) was an American artist. He was most known for his varying styles of art, which included faithful representations of factories, posters of World War I bond drives, and watercolors of the Gibson Girl. [1]
1 Charles Dana Gibson (1902) Studies in expression. When women are jurors. Toggle the table of contents.
HunterGirl has dreamed of being a label-signed Nashville artist since she was a child, singing songs by Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, P!nk and Dolly Parton in her grandmother's living room.
Debbie Gibson still holds the record as the youngest female artist to write, produce, and perform a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single, a feat she accomplished at age 17 with “Foolish Beat.”
He became known particularly for his drawings of women, which won him acclaim as the successor of Charles Dana Gibson. [2] [3] Together with fellow artists Howard Chandler Christy and Neysa McMein, he constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's, "Fame and Fortune" contest jury of 1921/1922, who discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow. [4]