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Charles Dana Gibson (September 14, 1867 – December 23, 1944) [1] was an American illustrator who created the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century.
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]
The magazine was a success and soon attracted the industry's leading contributors, [9] of which the most important was Charles Dana Gibson. Three years after the magazine was founded, the Massachusetts native first sold Life a drawing for $4: a dog outside his kennel howling at the Moon.
Charles Dana Gibson's "Gibson Girls" graced its pages, as did the creepy cartoons of Charles "Addams Family" Addams. Respected artists like Frederick Remington and James Montgomery Flagg drew for it.
Gibson was born on March 9, 1943, in Evanston, Illinois, to Georgianna Law and Burdett Gibson, and is a great-nephew of graphic artist Charles Dana Gibson.He grew up in Washington, D.C., [2] and attended the Sidwell Friends School, a private college-preparatory school in Washington.
McCoy was a Gibson Girl, modeling for artist Charles Dana Gibson, before she acted. [4] She began working for Gaumont studios in 1916 [5] and also acted for Zitaphone, Biograph, and Pathe. [4] In 1915, the Gertrude McCoy Theater opened in West Baltimore's Easterwood section. It was built by the Lord Calvert Amusement Company.
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Gibson Johns Updated August 28, 2020 at 1:19 PM A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning.