The art of Charles Dana Gibson: Click on the links below the drawings to download FREE .jpgs you can copy, save to your desktop, paste anywhere and print on 8-1/2 x 11" paper. The prints look nicer than they do here. |
These CAPTIONED drawings were selected
from 600 drawings in Volumes I and II of THE GIBSON BOOK which
were a compilation of eleven smaller Gibson Books published around
1900 by R. H. Russell & Charles Scribner's sons. Most of the drawings
appeared first in the pages of LIFE and COLLIERS WEEKLY.The titles
of the eleven books are; Drawings, Pictures of People, London, Sketches
and Cartoons, The Education of Mr. Pipp, Americans, A Widow And Her
Friends, The Social Ladder, The Weaker Sex, Everyday People and Our
Neighbors. One historical reference book states that virtually every
middle-class American family had copies of these volumes in their living
room. The artist, Charles Dana Gibson, who created the Gibson
Girl, was this country's most popular social cartoonist at the turn
of the last century. These are warm, human, thought provoking line drawings
by one of America's greatest artists. Each drawing and caption has
a point, a story, a moral, a joke, or sometimes, a bite. They are eight
of his best. My personal favorite is "The story of an empty sleeve" ----
this simple drawing wonderfully captures both the horror and glamour
of war.
It sends a chill up my back every time I look at it. |
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